We are working on single family seastead designs.

It might lower our development costs and risks if we just had to develop the stable platform and could just buy
some housing unit to install on top.  So it seems worth checking on this possibility.

We are thinking to have the parts made for our platform in China and then assemble them at a duty free shipyard
in the Caribbean.  So in an ideal world there would already be someplace in the Caribbean that made housing
modules that are ok for use on an ocean platform and came with huge amounts of solar.  Anything like this?

A second dream option is that there are housing systems designed to be shipped  in a normal container and then
assembled on site reasonably quickly.  It would even be ok if a shipyard had to do a some welding to make
the some joints waterproof.

Our first market will be the Caribbean.

Our platform should result in mild accelerations, like less than 0.1 G for 90% of the time in the Caribbean,
keeping away from hurricanes and tropical storms.  But it is not stable like land.   Constant motion for years
is hard on things that were not designed for that.


One design has room for a living space like 14 feet by 60 feet but the designs are very early and easy to change if
some other size are available.  And this is 14 feet above the water, so it won't get splashed too often but there
will be some splash and certainly a lot of salt spray.  So really would like something designed to handle
the marine environment.  

Since we are floating, weight is an issue.  Don't want it to be crazy heavy. 

Probably the offshore oil and gas industry housing modules are the most likely to actually work as these must be marine rated.
Don't want the sort of tiny crew space that I remember seeing in these.  Are there some offshore modules that a family could enjoy living in?  

For testing our prototype seasteads, getting a surplus or used housing module one could save money if getting it to the Caribbean is not too hard.

This is only interesting if it saves money over making our own housing units.  So low cost is important.  We are find with Chinese sources.
I don't want to try to modify something that is not marine rated or nice for a family (reasonable windows etc).

I hear some yacht companies order Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic (FRP) or composite sandwich panels from Chinese companies and then
just put the parts together.  This might work well for the housing part of my seastead.  For a 14 by 60 foot housing space using these
how expensive do you think it would be?  How much work is needed to put them together.


What housing options can you find that might work with our seastead platform?