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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It depends. If we are talking hypothetically, no, as you could hypothetically put a ship on a perfectly flat plane of water with no disturbances, and it would be fine.
In reality, things like waves, the load of the ship, moving the ship, and the structural materials the ship is made out of all limit the size.
Buoyancy doesn’t have a limit, all you really need is to displace water to force the ship to float.
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