I've seen these pie-in-the-sky leviathan ship schemes before. I always wonder...how does any nautical architect compensate for the quite narrow beam to LOA ratio. How would these vessels stand steep breaking waves or even deep trough swells when they are so damn long and narrow...and yet purported to require relatively shallow draft? I keep thinking of a rather large M/V Edmund Fitzgerald. Snap!! One would think these vessels would need such deep drafts as to be incomprehensible.
It's an investment bilking scam pure and simple, and was 100% debunked last year.
Another myth that won't die.
Good points. It'd be like trying to float a pencil in a bath tub with tower of toothpicks glued to it and expecting it to float upright. I guess if these boat designers can rewrite physics and work this new concept out, all sailboats can remove their lead keels, huh?
Also, couple of clues for investors:
Freedom Ship International CEO Norman Nixon said in a telephone interview from his Florida home.
"As soon as I build this joker, I'm going to retire and live on it," Nixon said.