I've been interested in living on a boat for some time now, and as I've learned more about it, I think I've found an undeveloped market niche. I don't have the capital or expertise to exploit it, but I might benefit a lot from someone else doing it... So here it is...

Offshore moorings. Its a developed industry for energy projects, but appears to be completely absent for pleasure boaters or fishermen.

When you tally up the cost of living on a boat - even a modest boat - it gets ridiculous pretty fast. You need slip space, which is charged per foot, and electricity and probably showers and internet and fuel and water. Getting food probably means paying for a ride. And the harbors are tightly controlled by government and have pseudo monopolies, operating in an advantaged position of a somewhat captive market.

Well... F that. We could open this up to competition by putting some pilings in open water and floating some segments between them to create a deployable lagoon. Obviously there are technical details which I don't know, but if we can make oil rigs, we can make artificial harbors too.

Something I think about a lot is just how much open space there is at sea. It's hard to wrap my mind around it. On land, we get the impression that humanity is spreading over everything like a fungus, but that's not really true - we're using a small fraction of the land and almost never venture out to the unbuilt-upon land. The oceans are entirely unused. And states seem to fear the ocean - shipping lanes can be patrolled because they're as one dimensional as possible. The vast expanse beyond the narrow lanes is wild. Raw nature. Practically infinite in all directions. If you took everything humans have ever built and put it in the Pacific Ocean and then forgot where you left it, you'd never be able to find it again. Its that big...

We could build a breakaway civilization from deployable artificial harbors.... Offshore moorings. Or just make boat life a lot more affordable. Maybe.

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