INFECTED with PROGRESS: XPM78-01 Möbius Progress Update March 30-April 03, 2020
I am VERY pleased to be able to report that everyone on Team Möbius including Christine and myself are all doing well and managing to stay safe, fit and healthy. As per the title the only thing we are “infected” with is enthusiasm and progress. We...
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...
VIRAL PROGRESS: Weekly Progress Update XPM78-01 March 23-27, 2020
Christine and I can’t wait for our SIC membership in the Self Isolation Club to expire this Sunday night (March 30) so I can get back to Naval Yachts on Monday morning. Our sincere thanks to all of you who have been inquiring about or status and situation and...
Update from the not so exclusive SIC Self Isolation Club! Möbius XPM78-01 Weekly Update March 16-20, 2020
Last Sunday, the 15th, upon our return from London for Christine’s B’day weekend we very willingly joined many of you I suspect as members of the Self Isolation Club or SIC as I’ve been calling it. As my cousin Donna who is also a member of SIC in their home...
Better Late than Never? Weekly Progress Update XPM78-01 Möbius May 9-15, 2020
Sorry to keep you waiting so long for last week’s Progress Update as it is already time for me to be posting this week’s! I did manage to get one post up last weekend all about Captain Christine’s 2020 B’day Adventure so if you have not read that you might...
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...
Spring has Sprung in more ways than One! Progress Update XPM78-01 Möbius March 02-07, 2020
As this photo attests the weather here in Antalya the past few weeks has been spectacular and very Spring like. Last Sunday Christine and I took a break to go for a nice Sunday drive along what is apparently called the “Gulf of Antalya” which is a crescent...
Leaping Forward: Progress Update XPM78-01 Möbius Feb 24-28, 2020
Good thing 2020 is a Leap Year so we get an additional day to work on Möbius here at Naval Yachts as the time goes flying by and I can barely comprehend that it is already the end of February 2020. However as you are about to see and read below, the progress...
Gee Whiz Week XPM78-01 Möbius Progress Update Feb 17-21, 2020
While no where near as much as I wanted, I did manage to spend more time this past week giving Mr. Gee, our Gardner 6LXB diesel engine, more of the TLC he needs and deserves. After a LOT of disassembly and seemingly endless cleaning and reconditioning of...
Things are Heating up Outside and In: XPM78-01 Möbius Progress Update Feb. 10-14, 2020
The wind shifted from being out of the ccccccccccCold North to coming off the Med to the South so our temperatures here in Antalya when from low single digits and night time temps a few days down to 1C/34F to a high of 19C/66F on Thursday so a very welcome change...
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