Up Up Up She Goes
Progress continues full speed ahead with Team Möbius for the week of September 10-14, 2018. Most of the work and the most visible change is the continuation of work on the superstructure for the above deck Pilot House that creates our SuperSalon with the...
SuperSalon SuperStructure Sept 3-7, 2018
This week Team Möbius made great progress on both on the bottom and the top of the hull of the hull. On the bottom Sezgin and Mehmet continued in what must seem to them as the unending miles of welding since all the hull plates have been tacked in place. Joining...
Tunnel, Skeg and Scads of Space
All of us on Team Möbius had last week off as it was the big holiday for the 5 day Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca for the Muslim world so Christine and I seized the opportunity to go eXplore more of the many sites surrounding us here in Antalya Turkey. I put...
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...
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...
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...
Flippin’ Fantastik!!
Wow! What a week this August 13-17 was here at Naval Yachts with the building of the hull for Möbius. Let’s just say for now that we are so excited that we are flipping with joy and let the photos and the videos below to show you why.Picking up where we...
Ship Shaping Up
Another busy and productive week here at Naval Yachts with continued great progress on building the hull of our eXpedition Passage Maker XPM70-1 also known as mv Möbius. Plus Christine and I went on two eXpeditions of our own this week and I’ll put that up in a...
BowTy and the Beast?
Progress on Möbius’ hull for this week of July 30 through August 3rd of 2018 was very visible as the final row of hull plates were set in place so let’s jump right in.Beginning of the week saw the Port side hull plates being fully fitted and tacked in place.This...
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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