The Seasteading Institute

I don’t want “social architecture”, i never want to be in a situation i cannot leave the neighbors and live somewhere else. I won’t ever be in any place where a government can tell me dogs are worth more and have […]

If you can reduce any island’s cost to run diesel generators, you’d likely pick up a customer. The gotcha as i see it is that the most fertile places for growing biofuels are the outflows of rivers in a […]

I forgot where i saw it, but it was back when an island was merely dirt that rested on the ocean floor and was above water at high tide. Any dirt, any shape, any way the dirt got there. The definition got more […]

It’s been tried, recently, dumping sand/dirt on an unclaimed sandbar to raise it above water at high tide (the definition of an island). An existing island nation promptly sent in military and confiscated it, […]

I was going to go with chickens, rabbits, and maybe goats.

But if my living space was also my transportation, there’s tons of places i could not pull into for any reason unless i wanted to deal with giving […]

I am all for a seastead farming plants and animals. Given enough time, i think using the roof area pays off for farming, if you make electricity other ways, and can keep the salt spray off the crops. To that end, […]

Ok, lets assume it is 3 tons, or 6600 pounds, per km^2. One km^2 = 1000m by 1000m, or 1,000,000 m^2. According to my calculator, 6600 lbs spread equally among 1,000,000 sq meters, is 0.0066 lbs per sq meter, or 3 […]

Do you not understand “maybe”?

Why are you poking at me? Is that all that happens here any more?

Yep, if you claim $300k in salvage, and the owner won’t pay it, you might haveto keep the boat. Something i have not seen addressed yet is if the boat has old dock fees attached to it from sitting where it was for […]

You cannot set foot on or drop anchor near any uninhabited island from Kure Atoll to the main islands. It’s all marine protected reserve. So you let me know how that works out for you.

I don’t believe you have a mental grip on how much garbage there is out there, or what form it is in. There isn’t enough visable plastic floating at the surface to build a net big enough to trap the visable […]

And all those Hawaii chain islands are in a no-go zone, with no fishing or anchoring permits issued, as of 2000 presidential edict. However, if you were looking for a shallow spot in the Midway Island area of the […]

Thank you for your informative and well considered reply, OCEANOPOLIS.

I heard that even a boat’s non-engined and non-sailed lifeboat dingy had to be registered and titled in Fla, and the trailer it rode in on.

So what does one need to do to have one’s tension leg platform within the usa EEZ be declared not-a-vessel, not-a-hazard-to-navigation, and not be in any state waters (for realestate tax reasons), and not be […]

It’s been a few days since i first subscribed and posted here, and all this has done is confirm to me my first appraisal of seasteading.org from many years ago: it’s a waste of time. There’s no answers, there’s […]

I am SO sorry i ever mentioned watch while anchored. Anchor was only one of several situations i could have mentioned, and i stupidly assumed you’d  take “under way” as one of those times when standing watch was […]

http://www.boatingsafety.com/colregs.htm :
Part 5 :
Every vessel shall at all times maintain a proper look-out by sight as well as by hearing as well as by all available means appropriate in the prevailing […]