I recently read an article that the Royal Caribbean have just given the go ahead for the largest ever cruise liner to set sail, it’s nearly 1200ft long and has something ridiculous like 5 water slides and a zoo on it (maybe that’s an exaggeration, but you get the point).
It got me thinking – is there a ceiling to how large a boat can be? Does buoyancy have a limit? If you ignored the impracticality of mooring and getting into smaller bodies of water, is the capacity of Ship building limitless?
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Us navy veteran here. I suspect the practical limiting factor would be not the ship itself but port facilities. Ships need to tie up pier side and on Occasion get serviced. If there is a big enough space that’s a problem.
Oh. Also insurance. Ships must have insurance. For a mega gigantic ship the insurance rates might be prohibitive.
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