We are working on a seastead design that will have a 40 by 16 foot living area above the water.
There will be 4 foot wide columns that are about 24 feet long going out from 
from the 4 corners of living area and down into the water at 45 degrees, which half of
each column under water.   The bottoms of the floats will make a rectangle about 50 feet wide and 74 long.
From the bottom of each column there will be 
2 cables going to the adjacent corners to hold it in place.
There will also be a cable making a rectangle between the bottoms of all the floats so we have some
redundancy in case one cable breaks.
The seastead is about 36,000 lbs I think but this is NOT a normal boat hull shape,
it is more like a tiny oil platform as far as drag.

We expect to use 2.5 meter diameter propellers on two low speed submersible mixers and solar power to move
at around 0.5 to 1 MPH plus any help from careful use of eddies.


We are going to test with scale models.
Our Naval architect will test with simulations.
So I sort of expect we will know how well the design works in waves before we actually build the full scale prototype.

What sort of problems would you expect to find in prototypes we build?
How many iterations do you think we should budget for before we have a design solid enough to go into full production?