Archived-Discussions

Ideas wanted: Seasteading Book PR

Would love help coming up with media contacts for the upcoming seasteading book – people who could review it & get the word out especially. Ideally we can find a wide variety of people in a variety of forums, each of whom has written something that indicates they are philosophically aligned with seasteading. Would be awesome if those of y’all who read a lot of blogs/press or network a lot with media types would bookmark this page and make use of it over the coming months :). This is an experiment in crowdsourcing more of our research – we’ll see how it goes!

Sink or Swim 2010 Business Contest

Press Release


The Seasteading Institute Launches “Sink Or Swim”, the First Seasteading Business Plan Competition

Contest Invites Entrepreneurs to Explore Business Opportunities in the Ocean

July 5th, 2010 –

Latest Seasteading Talk Video: Mises Brazil

The Mises Institute Brazil has posted the video of my talk at the first Mises Brazil conference earlier this year, to 200+ people. They gave me a long time slot, so rather than the short introductory talk I give to audiences like TEDx, I got to include a bunch of structural activism discussion as well as just seasteading. This is the longest and most-recent talk video available for seasteading, so…enjoy!

Estimation of DP Power requirements

The calculation of the required power to maintain a vessel keeping a fixed position with the aid of a Dynamic Positioning (DP) system is not easy. Wind, waves and current forces should be analyzed together with the propulsion configuration of the vessel. But some rough estimation could be done easily with the HSSC number as explained here below.

Ephemerisle 2010 Cancellation

We regret to tell our community that after much discussion this week, we are canceling Ephemerisle 2010 due to insurance costs. The estimate for insurance-related expenses has risen from an early estimate of $55,000 to a total of $135,000, with much of the jump happening a week ago. This caused us to take a long, hard look at Ephemerisle’s budget and the ROI of the event as a whole.

Voith Schneider Propeller

The Voith Schneider Propeller (VSP), also known as a cycloidal drive (CD) is a specialized marine propulsion system (MPS). It is highly maneuverable, being able to change the direction of its thrust almost instantaneously. It is widely used on tugs and ferries; but in recent years, it has also been used in offshore vessels, like Platform Supply Vessels, or even in Offshore Accommodation Vessels.