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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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
Wonderful Week of Wandering
The week of August 20-24th was a big holiday here in Turkey as this marks the five day Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia and pretty much all businesses, schools, banks and government agencies were all closed. We found this Q&A on the hajj...
Wonderous Week in Antalya
Last week Christine and I took advantage of our fabulous location here in Antalya Turkey to take a break from building our eXtreme eXpedition Passage Maker boat Möbius and go on some land based eXpeditions.After a 5 minute drive from our home and Naval Yachts, we...
Gardner + Aluminium = Goldilocks eXtreme eXploration Passage Maker
A quick post to refer you to a 2016 article in Yachting World magazine which Christine came across with an article about a fascinating fellow ex sailor now eXtreme eXploration passage maker David Cowper who recently completed one of the most challenging passages...
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