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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Boyancy isn’t an issue as it is related to the “hollow” volume inside the ship and the Archimedes principle https://youtu.be/bKToF_t5LAU
The major issue as you get much larger is shearing stress on the metal frame where the hull could potentially fracture and let the water in.
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