My understanding is wealthy people rarely travel on their yachts anyway, because being at sea on a ship that size is not very pleasant. They have the crew sail them to where they want to go, then fly there and use the yacht at anchor as a floating apartment.
There are even special semi-submersible carrier ships that…

And SF real estate is only limited because of extremely restrictive zoning. There’s no shortage of land, it’s just that a lot of the land that’s there is not allowed to be used to its potential. We’re talking about spending a lot of money to convert a cruise ship into rather shitty apartments in order to save maybe a…

“Engine? Oh, you didn’t ask about that before. It was never installed. Well, we’re going to cast off the tow lines now, good luck guys!”

Sure, but once you add enough space to these rooms for cooking and living in full time, you’ll be lucky to have half that many. And your calculations are excluding things like slip fees and maintenance. Any ship that’s in salt water is constantly trying to rust to bits and sink; you have to almost constantly paint and…

The amount it costs just to keep a ship parked at the dock afloat is immense. But maybe we can convince some crypto bros it’s a good start for their seasteading operation.

Oh man, I just watched a YouTube video about the infamous “poop cruise” that had an engine fire. Sounded like hell. If the plumbing breaks at a hotel at least I can leave and check in somewhere else.

Kitting it out would probably cost more than building an actual, for-real apartment block. One you wouldn’t have to constantly pour money into to keep it from sinking.

Not everyone can afford to drop money on a lawyer, though.

One time I was doing that after parking a car at the return and an employee got irate because he thought I was taking his picture.

That *is* an odd one. I thought ours was weird for being in HCF (hundreds of cubic feet, equal to 748 gallons.)

The personal submarine submersible thing is when I knew it was really getting out of hand. Back in the ‘90s I saw a US Submarines brochure that started with the copy, “a turbine-powered helicopter is no longer the ultimate accoutrement for a megayacht” and I was like, “this is all gonna have to be burned down, isn’t…

You go to the panic room while your crew defends you. You know, the crew you hired under a flag of convenience that lets you ignore US labor laws.

The ForTwo was pretty awful to actually drive, and way overpriced for what it was.

That would be a big improvement over the smelly gasoline golf carts they use now.

I’m guessing it’ll be lighter than a Jeep Cherokee, and people take those things into the dunes all the time. It’ll be more fun if it’s light, of course.

Cool idea! There are a lot of adapter plate kits for Beetles so that should be a pretty straightforward project.

The original Manx was pretty eensy — it was a Beetle chassis with 14 inches cut out of the middle to shorten the wheelbase. So that would track.

Yeah, there are street-legal Manxes but they’re not the kind of thing you’d drive 100 miles up to Oceano. The flat windshield and lack of side windows is not a recipe for fun highway driving.  In reality almost everyone trailers the things.

I was thinking the same thing. The old school Manxes could be made street legal -- there’s an example a couple blocks from here.

Me either, and guys who lane split are riding right where the dots are for miles at a time.