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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The limit would be the structural strength of the materials used to build the boat. (As well as the size limit for being able to fit in ports)
There is no “buoyancy” limit, being able to float simply depends on displacing enough water to match the weight of the boat.
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