[Noisebridge-discuss] NoiseBoat

[Joel Jaeggli]

On 12/2/10 6:29 PM, Gian Pablo Villamil wrote:
> During Prohibition, casino + speakeasy ships would anchor offshore, just
> inside international waters. Boats would take customers out. If I'm not
> mistaken, one big pickup point was just below the Cliff House, and the
> ships were anchored out past the Farallons.

This big thing about ships is the amount of capital it takes to keep
something operating at scale... sucking down fuel at rate of a few
pounds per second is fine with 3000 paying customers onboard or a lot of
cargo, but no so awesome for the casual project.

> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:59 PM, <travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org
> <mailto:travis%2Bml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Hmm, decommissioned aircraft carriers...  suddenly I'm having
>     Cryptonomicon
>     flashbacks.  Maybe you could tow it towed out to international
>     waters? ;-)

it was actually snow crash, and the point was you could leverage the
North Pacific Subtropical Gyre to make a round trip as opposed to just
ending up in some giant garbage patch in the mid-pacific.

the operating costs for an aircraft carrier even if your rule out
propulsion are fairly epic, like you could run a reasonable sized space
program instead . the US has 6 carrier battle groups which is retarded
expensive even on the scale of us military expenditures.

ther are various tall ship sail training programs which probably hew a
little closer to the nb aesthetic, but a sailing vessel is a hole in the
water into which you pour money which is what keeps your's trully feet
planted on dry land.

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