We are working on a seastead design.
This is NOT a normal boat hull shape, but it is a bit like a trimaran in that their are 3 floats.


Above the water there will be a big triangle frame, 80 feet front to back and 40 feet wide.
The triangle frame will be a sort of truss structure that also doubles as a 4 foot high railing to keep humans from falling off.
We will call the 3 points on the triangle "front", "left", and "right".
And the edge between left and right we will call "back".

There will be a floor and roof/ceiling (7 foot inside) the full area of the triangle.
The enclosed living space will be 14 feet wide and 45 long on the centerline but one edge close to the back.
There covered area around the living space make an open porch.  
The living area will have lots of windows in the font and back and some along the side.    

There will be 3 floats/legs/wings that will be the buoyancy.
Each leg/wing will 19 feet long and have a NACA foil shape with 10 foot chord and 3 foot width.
This makes for a "small waterline area" similar like a small oil platform but one that can move through the water easier because of the foil shape.
Each of the 3 legs will be attached to the underside of the big triangle near one of the 3 points and going down into the water.
The 3 wings will all be parallel with the blunt or "leading edge of the wing" forward  so it is easy for the seastead to move forward.
Each leg will be 50% under the water (so 0.5 * 19 feet) and the top 50% out of the water.
On front of each leg on the top half that is out of the water will be a built in ladder.

There will be 6 RIM drive thrusters, one on each side of the legs/wings about 3 feet up from the bottom.
These will be aimed so they can push water past the wing and toward the back of the seastead.

On top of the roof there will be solar all over.

Behind the living area will be two supports going over the railing and 2 ropes going down to a dinghy that
is a 14 foot RIB boat with 1 outboard motor that is sideways against the other side of the railing.   
When the seastead is moving the dingy will not feel the wind as the living area will block it.

There are 3 stabilizers that look like a little airplanes, one attached near the back of each main seastead leg.  
The little airplane has a 10 foot wing-span, 1 foot chord, the body 6 feet long, and the elevator has a 2 foot wing-span and 6 inch chord. 
A small actuator makes the elevator angle up or down so it can adjust the angle of 
attack of the main wing of this stabilizer without needing a large actuator.
While the thick part of the leg is 4 feet wide the back where the airplane will attach is very thin.  And to get the airplane's
center of lift to balance on the pivot a notch into the front/center of the wing only has to go about 25% of the chord of the wing.








Earlier seastead designs were very slow and I had planned to have the parts made in China but
designed so they all fit in containers.  So parts could be shipped to the Caribbean and the
seastead would be assembled here.

Current seastead designs seem much faster so there are other options worth thinking about.

Having a crew fly to China and then sort of "yacht delivery" to get the seastead back to Anguilla.
This is a long yacht delivery so not too cheap but could work.

Having one captain and some people who want to learn about seasteads.  These could be 
prospective buyers or people just looking for an adventure.  We might charge these people
but we would want to be sure they were going to be helping with some of the work.
This could let us get seasteads without having to put out all the money for a yacht delivery.
There is some risk that this novice crew does something wrong.

Another option is "deck delivery", where the seastead is just put on top of a ship and 
that brings it from China to the Caribbean.

Another option is that the buyers would pick up their seasteads in China.  With this we
could have some sub-options:
     1) We could send one crew member to ride with them and train them on their delivery
     2) We could send one crew member to ride with them and train for a limited time, like 1 month.
     3) We could have video support over Starlink and even the ability to help with
          watches, weather, and navigation, but without any crew member on-board.

We could have a number of different options with different costs and the customer could just pick what they liked.

We could do a “Seastead Convoy”.  After 4–6 seasteads are ready they sail together with 2–3 professional captains 
rotating between vessels. 

Not all customers will want to go to the Caribbean and we should be willing to help them get wherever they
want to go so we can get the sale.

Can you see other interesting ways to get the seasteads built in China into customer hands?

Please discuss cost estimates for each and the trade-offs and what you think will work in practice.
If customers could choose from the many options, what percentage would end up going for each method?