GOALS

I am brainstorming on ideas for minimal viable product seastead.  
Goal is to make a seastead that is a huge commercial success.

The goal for the seastead is to be a home for a single family with lots of solar and enough 
stability that it is comfortable to be moving slowly out in the open ocean.

If a seastead can move between countries then the owner has the power to choose what
laws and taxes he is living under (at least for a time).  This is a higher level of freedom
than most people have.

We want the seastead to be less work and stress than a normal family yacht.
Many people feel "a boat is a hole in the water you pour money into". 
We don't want the seastead to feel like that.

Many family yachts have very limited water and no dish washer or washing machine
so it can feel a bit like camping.  The seastead will have plenty of water,
a dish washer, washing machine, dryer, and full sized fridge/freezer.

A normal family yacht does not have AC.  We want to be able to air-condition at 
least one room at a time, say bedroom at night and office room during the day.   

With windows closed and AC the inside will be more like a house next to the 
ocean than a typical yacht as far as the amount of salt spray on things
inside.  The accelerations inside are also going to be far less than a normal yacht.
So using regular dish washer, washing machine, freazer, etc instead of
"marine grade" may be possible and save a lot of money.

We think there is a market niche between the "living on a boat" (expensive, requires sailing skills, 
high maintenance) and the "living on land" (no movement at all) options with this slow moving seastead. 
And unlike a house there is no property tax to pay.  Our marketing slogan might be,
"seasteads, faster than a house, cheaper than a yacht". 

With Starlink there are digital nomads who could live and working on seastead.
We want the seastead to be enough more stable that getting work done on a computer
while the vessel is under way is practical.

Tourists could also like the idea of a living on the ocean for a week or two.
For locations like the Caribbean moving even 24 miles per day can let you visit many
different islands over the 6 months outside hurricane season.    

We will probably let the seastead biofoul and only protect the propellers.  This will increase drag but
for slow enough speeds the power needed may still be reasonable.  The slow movement and stuff growing
on the seastead will make it a "fish aggregating device" so that the people living on the seastead
will usually have fantastic fishing.

The more affordable we can make this the easier it will be to get customers.  We hope to be much 
cheaper than a yacht of comparable comfort and living space.  We want a design with
long life and low maintenance.  We want to appeal to people who have a 40 hour a week
job and can not dedicate their full time to sailing and taking care of a ship.

I would like to be able to get the main seastead parts into a couple shipping containers and
have the assembly be reasonably quick and unskilled.
We may eventually sell it as a kit where people can finish
out the interior themselves or we might have dealers in various countries that do the finishing.

We want a desgin that is very safe and fault tolerant.  So if one breakable part breaks we 
don't want to sink or be totally stuck.  

The seastead will be much slower than yachts, so it will not have as much ability to run away
from storms, so we want it to be able to withstand storms better than a regular yacht.

For the initial seasteads we are just targetting "Sea State Conditions" like the Caribbean sea conditions, 
not North Atlantic waves etc.  And during hurricane season the seasteads will have to be at the 
Southern edge to be out of the hurricane zone.

Do these goals make sense?  Are there other important goals we should keep in mind?