The weather has been Cccccccold and wet outside this week with one night time low down to zero Celsius but still lots of hot progress inside.
Most exciting of which is that little Yiğit and Mert, the new Dinç twins are now home! Dinçer kindly shared this photo of both his new twin boys and their very excited 3 year old brother Demir. Christine and I can’t wait to get our chance to snuggle these two little packages of joy! And I DO mean little as each one just barely tip the scales now at 2.5kg. However as all us parents and grandparents know, this will accelerate faster and faster as the weeks and years race by.
Not to be outdone the rest of us have been busy at Naval Yachts making more progress here on all the various projects underway. On Project GoldiLocks the focus this week has been mostly on stairs, stairs, stairs.
Stairs are one of the trickier parts to design and build as you really need to get these just right. The 3D models are great for trying out lots of different variations and getting a sense of what will fit, work and look the best but with stairs it comes down to how they feel when you are going up and down them. Is the spacing and size of each tread and riser all correct? Does your foot go naturally to the next step up or down and is it where you foot/brain expected it to be? Are the handrails where your hands naturally want them to be? And will this all work well and be safe when you are going up/down these stairs when the boat is going up and down in big seas and storms’?
So we have spent much of this week mocking up each set of stairs, trying them out as we walked up and down them and then adjusting and repeating till we got each one just right.
Time consuming but critical so let’s go check it out.
Once we had nailed down the sizes for each tread they were quickly welded up and we started figuring out the right placement radially from the vertical pole.
Ready for the next step which was almost as tricky as the stairs themselves ………..
Here Nihat is carefully cutting each vertical support to run through the aft corner of one tread and down to forward corner of the next one below.
They used a 90 degree elbow at each end to make the transition to the vertical post at the bottom and then turn sideways to the inner wall of the SkyBridge wall up top.
Here Uğur is fitting the short vertical handrail for the other side and wrapping it around the corner of the helm station up in the SkyBridge.
A circular staircase might seem to be a poor choice on a boat and would not be as safe as straight stairs. Christine and I certainly would have thought so up to a few years age when we spent time on several boats with circular staircases. Both of us noticed, especially when the boat was moving a lot, that when ascending or descending these stairs you were perfectly closed in by the safety of the curved handrails on either side of you. Even with hands full we were able to easily brace ourselves with one hip sliding easily and safely against the railing. One of those things you have to learn experientially and we have incorporated into the design of Möbius as much as possible of our experiential learning we have acquired over our many years and sea miles.
We will see all these various gauges and hoses being installed in the coming weeks but that’s all for this week folks, thanks for joining us.
I grabbed our trusty old GoPro camera and took a series of videos walking through the various stairs at different stages and have put them together into this time lapse summary below that will give you a good sense of how the stairs all look and give you more of a feel for the layout of the boat.
Thanks for joining us again this week and we’ll be back with next week’s update.
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