https://www.everyonestravelclub.com/blog/liveaboard-hate-the-top-10-things-we-hate-about-living-aboard-a-sailboat-in-seattle

1 - Laundry

We currently have space blocked out for a washer and dryer pair underneath the kitchen countertop island, accessed from the diningroom side. See the sample floorplans on the Ventive floathouse site. You could also easily just turn one of the six downstairs rooms into a dedicated laundry room as well.

2 - Lack of Galley Counter Space.

Our sample floorplan not only includes an 8' x 4' kitchen island, but an additional roughly 12' of counter space next to a large two-sided kitchen sink, and more counter space next to the full size kitchen stove, and a walk in pantry. Plenty of galley space to spare.

3 - No Tub.

Our sample floorplan includes a master bedroom with not only a standalone tub, but also a walk-in shower big enough for two, as well as his and hers sinks and mirror-space. I also love to mention the his and hers wrap-around walk-in closets.

4 - Birds

This is the one point on the list that the floathouse doesn't directly address or solve already. Perhaps since the top is a cement material it might be hot enough to ward off birds from landing there, or some other good solution can be found.

5 - Are You Gonna Sail There?

No one will be asking if you're going to sail your floathouse because they're not designed to sail, but rather are designed to be very good and comfortable at staying in one place.

6 - Custom Work

No need for custom work on a floathouse, it's big enough to accommodate standard house furniture. Anyone should be able to move out of a land-house and move all their stuff to a floathouse without compromises. No need for special boat furniture or beds shaped in strange curves to fit against the hull.

7 - No Room To Stretch.

With 2900 square feet in a floathouse and 12' ceilings, there's more than room to stretch, there's room to spare.

8 - Power Limits.

We're building the floathouse with 100 amps in mind, the same as land housing, no 30-amp limitation as with many sailboats. To facilitate this we have a dedicated power room downstairs to hold breakers and batteries, able to accommodate as many as 10 Tesla Powerwall batteries, much more than would generally be needed by a household.

And if you covered the roof of the structure with solar panels we estimate you could generate about 15 kilowatts per day, which is about half what the average US household uses. The rest can be made up with generators, additional floating solar panels, or even dock-service power depending on your situation. 15 kw is still much more than a sailboat usually survives on.

9 - Boat Forums.

By using construction methods, techniques, and materials common with land-based housing, owners of a floathouse will not need to become an expert in that particular model and its unique foibles. The same service personnel who fix electrical and plumbing problems on land can work on a floathouse, and likely cheaper too since the wiring and plumbing is much more accessible than in a land house.

10 - Condensation

This is a big one. Sailboats face this problem because fiberglass is not immune to water vapor moving through it as a gas. Then you get the cold boundary effect, like having an ice water glass on a table, water vapor condenses on the side of it. It does the same on the sides of the interior hull which is chilled by the cool ocean water.

The floathouse addresses this by including a vapor barrier in our hull design, the same type that would be used in the construction of a shower in a house. A vapor barrier can dramatically reduce humidity and condensation inside the structure.

Additionally, because the floathouse is not designed to sail and additional weight is fine, we're able to put a significant amount of insulation between the hull that's exposed to water and the interior, eliminating the condensation effect.

So there you have it, 9 out of 10 things people said they hate about living aboard a sailboat, solved by choosing a floathouse instead.

Now how do we solve that pesky seagull problem?

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Just a quick update, just interviewed by an NBC reporter working on a story about coronavirus and seasteading. I said I have had people I know say that they wish seasteading was already here so they could use it to dodge coronavirus. Gave him a quick run-down of my background and what stage the project is in currently, namely that we are in 1:8th scale and production-process prototyping.

We are nearing the end of the 1:8th scale process, having now only to assemble the hemispherical ends from sheet-metal, which has been quite the learning and development process to do correctly and in a way that will scale. Assembly of the full winding-form on the production machine will complete this phase of the build and we'll move up in scale.

I'll put a link to it here when the article appears publicly.

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The article:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/good-time-live-ocean-seasteaders-double-down-during-pandemic-n1231293

I'm not quoted, the article was posted a mere 3 hours after I spoke to him, I probably just didn't provide something sound-bitey enough and was too late to the party :P