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. We want to have a trailer hitch ball, or maybe a pintel hitch, at the front and back center of each seastead that we can install a rope bridge that goes between 2 seasteads. There will be a rope bridge that can be installed between two seasteads using a hitch on each one so one person at a time could go between the seasteads. It can also just be used to tow a seastead that has had trouble. Imagine we have two hand rail ropes that are taking the tension and then suspended below them a third rope for walking on. The end of the hand rail ropes will have a metal triangle with one point having a hitch connection to connect to the seastead and the opposite side keeping the two ropes apart with one rope attached to each of the other two points on the metal triangle. Imagine a single 250 lbs person is on center of this 40 foot rope bridge. How much sag is there if there is 2500 lbs total tension? How much if 1000 lbs total tension? Imagine the 4 motors in front seastead are thrusting at 750 lbs each for a total of 3000 lbs and the motors on the seastead in back are off. The two seasteads have the same amount drag so half the thrust will be used up on each, or 1500 lbs on each. If the second seastead has 1500 lbs of drag and the pull is coming from the rope bridge then the tension on the rope bridge is 1500 lbs. How hard would it be to send 6000 watts of power from the following seastead to the leading seastead? How do we do it so it does not try to send far more than 6000 watts? What would it cost for all the stuff needed? Instead of sending power from the back one to the front we could just have a very small tension normally, like 300 lbs, and then when someone is on the bridge it could be increased to 2000 lbs or something. We could have a light/laser beam that someone breaks when they walk onto the bridge, or a button they push before going on, or a security camera with AI that can tell when someone is going on the bridge. This way only for brief periods would the front seastead have to use much more power than the back to have high tension. How would you recommend doing this? Imagine we want the rope bridge to be made out of Nylon so it has plenty of stretch in case a wave pulls on one seastead before the other and we want it to have 15,000 lbs break strength. How much do you think it would weigh? How much do you think it would cost? What size trailer hitch or pintel hitch would be rated for 15,000+ lbs? If one person attaches one end of the bridge to the hitch on his seastead and then takes a lead line and walks down the float on his seastead while someone on the other seastead walks down the stairs on the leg on his seastead the two people should be within rope throwing distance. After the second guy catches the lead rope he can pull up his end of the bridge and attach it to the hitch on his seastead. Then the front seastead can start pulling on the brige to give it the tension. It probably is not too hard to setup. Once there people can go back and forth between the two seasteads. Probably this works for 3 or 4 connected together in moderate waves, right? So you could have a real seastead community. The people setting up the seastead should probably have a safety rope attached to them before they they walk down the legs and work on setting up the bridge. I have some land by a rocky shore in Anguilla where I think it is deep enough for the seastead just 30 feet out. If I had a concrete fixture on shore with the right kind of hitch for the rope bride it may be reasonable to connect the bridge between the seastead and shore. The wind is blowing away from shore so the natural inclination would be for the seastead to be pulling on the bridge if it were connected to shore at this spot. Try to draw an image with two seasteads and rope bridge like the above between them.