Seastead as Oasis for yachting nomads
I was intrigued by michael´s comment in the OSDI thread that if seasteads would exist, he would travel from seastead to seastead. My market development manager part realized inmediatly that there exists a relativly large community of nomadic or seminomadic living yachties, so if a seastead could cover the function of an OASIS in this kind of lifestyle it would definitly work as a business.
People would not even percieve it as "something new and different" - it would just be another floating marina installation - that specializes on the live aboard yacht segment with its services. Among those services would not only be the basic services as shelter, food, repair, shower, bar, but also opportunities to get temporal jobs in the attached aquaculture site, or the floating dock that produces walkways, and platforms for expanding the installation constantly.
Some of the "seagypsies" will kind of stay and start working on a personal living platform (maybe a seastar design) that would become part of the installation. There would not even be a "masterplan" necessary - it would simply develop.
Let me hear your thoughts...
Wil
In fact i have already started to build live aboard floating concrete shell structures in the eighties, i finished a 200ton structure, in the caribbean (room equivalent of a 68 squaremeter apartment).
As i expected i had a lot of administrative trouble caused by the shipyard during construcction.
So i was looking for building my own shipyard - but found that suitable land near deep water channels is extremly expensive - even in the caribbean. So i was looking for "floating building and living solutions" - this was how i found seasteading as a priciple in first place.
Taking my proven concrete shell building techniques to make my own shipyard i came up with the SEASTAR design the seastar design automaticly leads to GRID SEASTEADING . While solving the related problems i found that the local hospitality business is looking for floating solutions too. A similar tendency exists for yacht marinas, aquaculture business etc...
Obviously the bay of cartagena is the best natural anchor feature of the southamerican coast - this is why the conquest of the continent started from ships anchored in this bay. So i found that i am already sitting at the perfect seasteading hub. I checked the legislative part and found that there are simply no existing rules - so in southamerican practice this means when you are afloat you are free to do almost anything with almost no interference.
When we founded European Submarine Structures AB we planned to build that kind of structures as a business to serve to the hospitality business - looks like there is some parallel in plans with TSI, OSDI, Genesis, etc . So i was wondering if joining forces is a possibility.
Wil
concretesubmarine.com
European Submarine Structures AB
Funny, the Bay of Cartagena is only about 1000 miles away from Belize which is my launching point. Wil, the more I read about your efforts the more I see that you are heading in the same direction I am. Except you've been at it much longer and have begun to perfect the concrete designs.
Since we plan on using concrete dome buildings for SO:BIZ (using the eco-shell product from Monolithic: www.monolithic.com/stories/ecoshell-i and shop.monolithic.com/products/30-x-12-ecoshell-airform ) maybe you would like to stop by and give us some pointers. If our little community was to your liking we can designate some of the 200 acre site for some of your concrete shell building techniques to be practiced.
Either way, we'll have to meet up... maybe it'll be on the waves, maybe sooner.
Live Well!
-Jason
I've had precisely the same thoughts... and marine life "flock" to flotsam and jetsam as is, and a seastead would just be teaming with aquatic species of all strips. From tourism to aqua/mariculture to repair services to nearly anything that would benefit from easy extraction of the abundant resources at hand, seasteads, when they are viewed as "safe" and even "not that uncommon" will become destinations in and of themselves.
So... when do we start building?
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