Build a 20,000+ sqft floating platform to put a small pre-fab home on and then boat/float a few miles (international waters) off the coast of California.
This would be perhaps a floating disc with a radius of 80ft or a floating rectangle 108X185ft...
Do not concern yourself with how I would get fresh water or food...
Thank You!
2006-11-29 06:46:46 · 7 answers · asked by juan70ahr 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
+ I suppose you have chosen as good as any way to die. Firstly building it will be difficult, surviving for any extended period of time would be near impossible. I have been at sea off of the coast of California and you won't last long. I would think that you would have another problem as it might be considered a hazard to navigation.
Just as a test go there on a boat first and stay out for a day or two just to see for yourself what a floating cork is like.
May God Bless you for trying.
2006-11-29 09:57:18 · answer #1 · answered by Clamdigger 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
No, it is unfeasible, unsafe, and generally moronic. Currents and wind would push you back to land or further away so you can't get back. How would you power the home?
There are still pirates in the world. How would you protect your home?
The platform would have to be high out of the water to keep the property from getting overrun by waves during a storm. You've only mentioned two dimensions. Who would you get to build such a thing? It would be very expensive.
There are many secluded places in the world on land. You would be better off just moving. If your motivation is to do something illegal, why not just take a boat out, do whatever, and return?
2006-11-29 07:01:19 · answer #2 · answered by David K 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
nicely.. right that's a pair of matters that I see. making a platform that length is extremely an undertaking because of the fact the quantity of structural help may be huge. that's extremely probable an impossible project for a 'do it yourselfer' without the right mechancal engineer information. the difficulty I see is the strain led to by the rolling movements of the waves. enable's say you geared up this platfor and going with the longest area of 185ft. in the adventure that your platform could 'experience out' typhoon with 6ft seas, this might reason each and every end of your platform to pitch up and down a distance of someplace around 12ft. you could basically think of the thrashing the form will take increasing and falling 12ft at one end and then the comparable on the different end. large ships and boats and can cope with this sort of wave action because of the fact thier hulls are elongated they're heavy adequate to 'cut back by' the waves with minimum upward thrust and fall. on account which you're finding at an basically approximately sq. or around platform this does not take place. basically my innovations. OH.. the 12 foot distance.. is calculated with easy geometery utilising a 6ft wave with an 80 'injury over' element. desire this enables!
2016-12-10 18:28:49 · answer #3 · answered by hannigan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would be concerened abot how I would keep it in one place and not have it float away. The water's probably a bit deep for an anchor. I'd also worry about not having it sink in a storm.
2006-11-29 06:49:31 · answer #4 · answered by Gene 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They built a floating airport in Tokyo, I don't see why the same couldn't be done with a house.
2006-11-29 06:55:25 · answer #5 · answered by Geoff S 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Imagine a 20ft wave. Now, do you think it will be safe?
2006-11-29 06:56:28 · answer #6 · answered by Stewart H 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
go for it u only live once
2006-11-29 06:54:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋