CHRISTINE'S POSTS
Much Ado about “T” Progress Update XPM78-01 Möbius 15-18 December 2020
A bit of a slow week progress wise on XPM78-01 Möbius this past week as our work week was unexpectedly reduced to four days due to a complete power outage at the Antalya Free Zone where Naval Yachts and about 30 other shipyards are located. We are now...
The simple comment that Changed My Life Forever Better
Seven years ago today, this little fella, aka Barney the Yorkshire Terror, changed my life in ways and degrees that I am still unable to fully comprehend. More accurately, it was seeing him for the first time in the short 25 second video below that captured...
Flying high over a magical world
As Wayne mentioned in his blog this week, we took a couple of days away from the boatyard to see one of Turkey’s most visited and photographed regions: Cappadocia, famous for the unique “fairy chimney” structures on the landscape, cave dwellings, and the...
Video Tours of XPM78-01 Möbius; July 15, 2020
Merhaba as we say here in Turkey, to all our faithful blog readers. Just for a change of pace, this is Christine here and I wanted to let you know that we have heard all your many requests asking for a video tour showing the current stage of construction of our...
Jiminy Cricket! Möbius is OFFICIALLY a REAL BOAT!
As you will soon see, Summer is not the only thing that is officially here. Captain Christine has now officially registered XPM78-01 Möbius with the Jersey Ships Registry in the island Port of Jersey and I can’t resist the chance to start off this week’s...
MÖBIUS will be all-PC, and we don’t mean politically correct
The first time I sailed across the Pacific was in 1975. This is a much younger me in Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas. We navigated with a sextant and a chronometer that we kept in a velvet-lined box. Paper charts and pencil. The only pieces of electronics gear on that...
Captain Christine’s 2020 Birthday Adventure
Captain Christine, AKA my Beautiful Bride, completed her latest circumnavigation of the sun this past Sunday March 15th and as is our policy, we give experiences for gifts rather than “things” so we flew over to London for a few days as one of her experiential...
2 for the price of 1??
Well as you might have noticed time got away from me and I didn’t succeed in getting the Weekly Update posted for last week. But wait, I’ve got some great excuses! The week was not only more densely packed than ever with the ever increasing progress on...
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...
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