Crazy weather here in Antalya today with lots of thunder and lightning storms and now some hail. There was even a nasty tornado which blew in from offshore a ways north of us that did lots of damage apparently but nothing of the sort down here fortunately. However things continued to be hot and heavy at Naval Yachts as Team Möbius progresses through another week of building our new 24m XPM eXtreme eXploration Passage Maker aka mv Möbius. The new TIG welding gun that was the focus of attention in last week’s posting continued to be used nonstop as Sezgin enjoyed breaking it in and I think he also enjoyed the change from months and months of nonstop MIG welding during the build of the hull. Lots to show you so let’s get started……..
Quick test to see if you were paying attention in class last week and remember the name for these notched area you put on pipes that join perpendicular to another pipe?
I think this shot really helps to show you why these are called “birds mouth”. You can almost hear them chirping to be fed some tasty TIG welding rod!
Along with some D rings that will go along that upper sloping surface these rails will also provide good spots for lashing things like our inflatable kayak down to this nice out of the way storage area.
Normally pickup tubes sit a bit above the bottom so that any debris remains on the bottom of the tanks but in our case we want to pick up any dirt or water that might make it into these tanks so it can be removed by the Alfa Laval centrifuge as it regularly polishes all our fuel.
Molars extracted from a giant aluminium dinosaur perhaps?
Or is Nihat prepping this for a dino dental implant?
One of the many eXamples of why the X in XPM stands for eXtreme!
In many parts of the developed and more populated world when we need to haul the boat out of the water we do have access to such equipment. However we have been in more remote or less developed areas where marinas, shipyards and such dedicated lifting equipment just doesn’t exist but these areas usually do have commercial shipping and building so there are cranes being used to lift heavy cargo and with these Crane Cleats we are all good to go.
Thanks again for joining us on this adventure and here is a quick little video to help summarise some of the progress this week.
Hi Wayne,
Thank you for an as always interesting post. Given the heavy-duty hanging cleats I wonder if you’re planning to carry a JSD or similar, and have made similar provisions at the stern?
Hi Carl. Yes we carry a number of different “sea anchors” and there are two heavy duty eyes going into the top aft corner of the deck where the transom, aft deck and hull plates all meet. They are out being machined now for the SS insert ring that is pressed into the 50mm thick aluminium bars that will be inserted into a slot in the transom wall in that corner and welded internally much the same as the big Crane Cleats you saw in this week’s post.
I will have pictures and more details when we start installing them so you can see what you think.
MAybe 50mm not 500mm?
oooops! Thanks for catching this John, now updated to 50mm. 500 would have been tooooooooo eXtreme even for Möbius! 🙂
Appreciate you following along and catching such errors.
Super strong, just like I like it!! 🙂
“Count not the candles, see the lights they give. Count not the years, but the life you live. Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years.”
Wishing you a wonderful time ahead. Happy birthday.
Happy Birthday, Wayne. Thanks for taking us along for the build. Love the beefy cleats. No need for backing plates with those!!
Great stuff…what a ship!
Thanks for the kind B’day wishes and glad you liked our tiny little “Crane Cleats”. 🙂
The Team Möbius aluminium specialists are now busy building all the other cleats and I’ll feature some of that in this week’s progress update post so you can see what you think of these different style of cleats.
Thanks for your comments FlyWright and please keep them coming as I learn an benefit a lot from the all.