Dincer, Baris, Yiğit and myself are in Cannes all this past week and now weekend looking after the Naval Yachts booth at the Cannes Boat Show and soaking up what’s new and interesting in the boats and companies here at the show. However the rest of Team Möbius are hard at work back in Antalya and thanks to the photography talents of my beautiful and talented Captain Christine I am able to bring you this somewhat abbreviated weekly update of all the progress on XPM78-01 Möbius. Let’s jump right in and see what’s been happening this past week ……
We will start off the boat over in Naval’s Cabinetry workshop where we find Ömer busy building the desk to go into Christine’s Office in the Aft Guest Cabin.
To refresh your memory here is an early rendering of the Guest Cabin looking aft to show Christine’s desk on the aft right side. We have since removed the door to the right of the desk and made other changes to the interior but this is the same layout.
Conveniently deleting the walls between the Guest Head/Bathroom and Shower enables this view looking directly Starboard to better show both the desk, printer cubby, Pullman berth folded into the upper wall with the couch below that folds out into a Queen bed and upper bookcases on both sides.
Here is a slightly different perspective and colour of materials looking forward and Starboard/right side of the boat. The wall between the right side of the desk and the Guest Shower has been removed here to show more of the full Guest Cabin.
Zipping back to reality aboard Möbius Ömer has the desk with its drawers and printer shelf set in place for final fitting.
Back to the Cabinet shop to catch Ömer and Selim busy putting on the solid rosewood edging onto the panels which go above and below the glass walls in the Master Shower.
They have also been busy prepping these plywood pieces from the Master Bathroom and Shower to receive the fiberglass panels what will soon be laminated on top. Rather than build a mold for a one piece bath/shower room enclosure they are going to do this fiberglass work inside the boat by laying up sheets of fiberglass over the plywood and glassing in all the corners. This will end up creating a seamless interior of walls, floors and ceiling that will be completely waterproof and easy to clean.
Back on board and down in the Basement, Christine was able to find more evidence of Cihan’s handiwork putting in more and more plumbing. In this case the two upper black EPDM insulated PPR white PVC pipes carry the Air Conditioner chilled water to each of the Air Handlers in each cabin. The two pipes running up through the ceiling lead to one of two Air Handlers in the SuperSalon.
The bottom EPDM insulated pipe is the hot water loop that circles the boat to provide immediate hot water to every tap.
Christine also managed to catch Hakan our resident 2D cabinetry drawing Master and Yesim our talented Interior Designer, conferring in the Guest Cabin, working out some details for this stepped transition on this side of the forward wall of the Guest Cabin and…….
…… this Galley side view where their discussion with Christine continued.
Not to be outdone, while they did get called away to work on another boat in the yard this week, Uğur and Nihat were able to knock off a few new jobs such as this section of the handrail on the Starboard/Right side stairs leading up from the Swim Platform onto the Aft Deck.
They also quickly completed the fold up ladder off the aft end of the Swim Platform. This will make it very easy and safe to get in and out of the water when swimming, snorkeling and diving.
As we try to do with many features on Möbius the swim ladder will serve multiple purposes so it is made to be easily removed by using two fast pins as hinges which allow the ladder to be quickly removed and moved to a matching pair of hinge plates at the side deck gate for times when we are docked to the side of a low dock and need to climb up/down the side of the hull.
Here is a fish eyed perspective looking up at the ladder to show how the U tube brace holds the ladder vertical and away from the end of the transom plate.
This is what you might see when swimming up to the aft end of the boat looking for a handhold to help you climb out. We have sized the ladder such that the bottom rung is an easy first step to get your foot up onto when in the water.
There will also be an additional pair of vertical rails running up parallel to the outer pipes here to provide an uninterrupted hand hold when you are climbing in and out of the water.
That’s it for this week. The boat show ends on Sunday and I’ll be back in Antalya on Monday evening and back in the shipyard Tuesday morning as we all continue to make good progress towards the end of the year launch date.
Thanks for joining us and please be sure to add any and all comments, questions, ideas and suggestions in the “Join the Discussion” box below.
-Wayne
There’s a saying in cooking, “Making the meal from scratch”. Meaning making the meal from basic ingredients directly as gathered from nature. It’s an awful lot of work but enables the human to add their special “unique” touch, and the subtle response to the variations in “natural” materials. Those variations become the heart and soul of the end product. It;s where the human transferred something to the product of the self.
There’s no substitute but it sure takes time and effort and talent and experience and “presence”.
Maybe now’s the time time in the construction process to re-introduce thinking about this concept from some time ago. Although, it can be done to the hull as an upgrade later after some experience at sea.
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The Hull Vane® was invented by Dr. Ir. Pieter van Oossanen and is protected by patents in all major shipbuilding countries. Established by Van Oossanen, a household name in ship optimization, Hull Vane B.V. is operating as an independent company since 2014.”
https://www.hullvane.com/home/
https://youtu.be/4Npm5FXnOLE
Like you I guess John, I’m keeping an eye on these promising developments in devices for improving hull efficiency and the Hull Vane seems to be doing very well and worth continuing to watch.
For this first XPM though I want to get a good data set from our real world use for the first year or so and use this as the baseline for all future changes such as the possible addition of something like a Hull Vane. One of the big advantages of the Hull Vane is that they can be added very easily at any time and some have even been added on with the boat in the water.
Thanks for your continued attention to all these various ideas for improving the XPM’s even further.
-Wayne
Hi, what kind on plywood you choose to use? How about weight and other features of the product? Br Jo
Hi Jo, thanks for your question on the marine plywood we are using for the interior furniture. We are using a relatively new product that is eXtremely light, easy to work, stable and sustainable. It is made from European Polar core with Ilomba faces by Garnica Plywood. It is rated for both interior and exterior use although we have no external wood on the XPMs. We get this from Garnica Plywood and you can get more details from there.
It has worked out exceedingly well and they are so lightweight that every time you pick a piece up you are surprised. Takes a finish well, great surface for laminating veneers, glues well, and machines well. As you can tell we LOVE this product and can’t recommend it more highly so thanks for asking.
Wayne