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Oh Captain, My Captain! XPM78-01 Möbius Progress Update 13-17 Jan. 2020
This was a week full of wonderful gifts the first of which is that Möbius now has her one and only official Captain! Christine flew back to Florida last week in large part to finish here marathon of testing and certification with the USCG for her 100 Ton...
Off and Running! First Week of New Year/Decade: XPM78-01 Möbius Weekly Update
First week of the year and we have 2020 off to a great start with all the progress on Möbius this week. I just got back from taking Christine out to the airport this morning as she flies back to Florida to finish her 100 Ton Captains License testing and start...
New Year – New Boat–New Baby? Progress Update XPM78-01 Möbius Dec 30-Jan 03, 2020
First and foremost Christine and I, along with everyone on Team Möbius here at Naval Yachts, we want to wish all of you a VERY Happy New Year and the hopes that 2020 will be the best circumnavigation of the sun for all of us. It is shaping up to be a VERY good...
Santa Alive & Well in Turkey! XPM78-01 Möbius Progress Update Dec. 23-28, 2019
Lest you be wondering, I can assure you that Santa is alive and well in Turkey and as you’ll see in this week’s update, I have a preponderance of evidence to support this claim So many new things have shown up this past week I won’t be able to cover them all but...
Beauteous of Works of Art & Engineering: XPM78-01 Möbius: Progress Update Dec 16-21, 2019
Say it isn’t so?!! We’re heading into the last week of the year? How the heck did THAT happen so fast??In my naïve youth I used to think that time would slow down as you got older and especially when you “retired” but I’ve never been busier in my life and...
Let the Chips Fly!! XPM78-01 Möbius Progress Update Dec. 9-14, 2019
Another busy week here at Naval Yachts for all of Team Möbius as we ramp up for the final push to launch as early in the new year as possible. It remains a labour of love for Christine and I but it certainly is all consuming of our time and attention. This...
Wayne
Off and Running! First Week of New Year/Decade: XPM78-01 Möbius Weekly Update
First week of the year and we have 2020 off to a great start with all the progress on Möbius this week. I just got back from taking Christine out to the airport this morning as she flies back to Florida to finish her 100 Ton Captains License testing and start...
Let the Chips Fly!! XPM78-01 Möbius Progress Update Dec. 9-14, 2019
Another busy week here at Naval Yachts for all of Team Möbius as we ramp up for the final push to launch as early in the new year as possible. It remains a labour of love for Christine and I but it certainly is all consuming of our time and attention. This...
Fold-a-Boat: Weekly Progress Update XPM78-01 Möbius Oct 14-18, 2019
Exciting times here at Naval Yachts as the intensity picks up several notches each week as the launch date gets closer. There were several new components which all involved having things fold up and down, hence this week’s title. So let’s dive in shall we...
Aluminium & Rosewood: as beautiful as it sounds – XPM78-01 Weekly Progress Update Oct. 7-11, 2019
For this past week, work on our XPM78-01 at Naval Yachts was focussed on the Cabinetry in the Galley and Guest Cabin and aluminium work on the rudder, chain bin, Dolphin watching seats and more. Here is a Show & Tell summary so you can see for yourself.Let’s...
Is it Live or is it Phantasmagoria?
For those of you too young to remember the title refers to a popular commercial in the 1970’s and 80’s for the leading edge of cassette audio tapes made by Memorex which were being touted as so good at capturing audio that they came up with the catchy marketing...
Christine
Oh Captain, My Captain! XPM78-01 Möbius Progress Update 13-17 Jan. 2020
This was a week full of wonderful gifts the first of which is that Möbius now has her one and only official Captain! Christine flew back to Florida last week in large part to finish here marathon of testing and certification with the USCG for her 100 Ton...
Searching for Sunrise
I've been here before. This is not my first time taking part in a new boat build. It was 1978, and I was 23 years old when my first husband Jim and I decided that we wanted to build a bigger boat, so we could make a living doing sailing charters. Jim had built boats...
Loving Life in Turkey
When we were going through the process of choosing a boat builder, we knew that the location mattered a great deal to us. We didn’t know for sure how long it would take to build the boat, but we knew we would be measuring the time in years, not months, so it had to be...
Serendipity leads us to Naval Yachts
In July 2016, we launched LEARNATIVITY, our 52-foot steel cutter back into the water after nearly a year on the hard in Fiji. The boat was looking better than ever after a new paint job, and while we loved cruising in our sailboat, we had also been working for more...
Meeting Steve
In early September of 2016, Wayne was off on his second boat-building-related trip to Turkey with his bidding package from Dennis in hand, while I returned to LEARNATIVITY in Fiji by myself. We had left the boat in a hurry( to return for the birth of a grandchild)...
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