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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You have to take other factors into consideration as well, such as the free surface effect, the draft, the risk of wear and tear on the spots that sustain the most stress, so on and so forth. You can google the largest vessel and see just how big they are. The last couple of ports I’ve been in, the limiting factor of who can enter the zone is draft. More than a few boats had to wait for high tide before they berth because they would run aground otherwise
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