What is needed, and my colleagues have produced, is the equivalent of a giant electric toothbrush.

50 yrs ago my father was working with an inventor who developed a hull cleaning process using explosive shock waves to pulverize marine hull growth. They had some success but couldn't be applied to different steel hull materials and construction. The project ceased after hull damage occurred.

In my same work building, the other materials science professor's group specializes in biofouling-related corrosion. Once a year they clean the hulls for all the Royal Caribbean ships that go into Port Canaveral.

I watched a video on YouTube which seemed pretty authoritative who are those ships be sold too. According to the video those ships and many some what older merchant ships are being sold to breakers primarily in India. They showed so many many ships side by side beached and being cut apart and Chinese cargo ship being loaded with the scrapped steel from breaker yards. It a nice idea to buy one of those ships for a song but you need personnel to maintain vessels like that.

Funny...My sailing yacht didn't make me an angry liberal.
Still Conservative after all these years.

I'll ask ... John Galt.

I understand that the nuclear subs need to resupply only for fresh fruit and veg. Even these are not absolutely essential, at least for a year or so.
Could it be ok for working at home - on line?

A nuclear-powered ship would make sense as going to port will be problematic.

I would be onboard with that.

An interesting idea but fraught with problems every which way. The most obvious being the thing that's typically ignored by Libertarians: security. Unless in addition to the cruise liner you have an entire Naval battle group to escort you around, you will be literally blown out of the water by the first commie regime (or any other group of pirates,) that decides that it doesn't like the idea of a group of objectivists living freely and prosperously anywhere on earth, and notices that "Hmm, they're 100% defenseless."

The second problem is the thing that's already been mentioned here: The need to resupply, with everything from fuel to food to fresh water to simple nuts-and-bolts operating supplies like cleaning, maintenance and cooking products.

The other massive problem is that rational people - objectivists in particular - are not content to live their lives in idle, purposeless coasting. Aside from those who may be retired, every single passenger on this ship will want to be creating and producing. If they're hammering out software, novels and the like on keyboards it's not a problem, but how do you do industrial production, or even less infrastructure-intensive commercial production, aboard a cruise ship?

Though there are advantages to being mobile (though far less so in the era of inescapable surveillance,) the most logical location for any Galt's Gulch will be land-based.

And as an inescapable corollary, absent a real-world equivalent of the cloaking technology that concealed the valley in Atlas Shrugged, any real-world Galt's Gulch would need a significant military force to defend its freedom.

Not currently, but given sufficient financial incentive, I could make that happen.

Are they nuclear powered?

Government interference? If you tick off ~any~ government on the planet, all they have to do is pop a couple of holes in your waterline and its game over. I would prefer a sanctuary with rocks for cover.

Those last two words you combined made me laugh.

The interior rooms aren't much bigger than a broom closet. You'd have to knock down a bunch of walls. Maybe six of them would make a room someone could live in.

Majesty was a great ship. It was brand new when we found out my wife was pregnant with our first child in '92, and we knew it was going to be a while before we got to travel again. We took a long cruise on Majesty of the Seas, and it was the biggest ship we'd seen or been on. As the last vacation we would take for several years, it was a great memory. Years later, when we took both our son and daughter, I think he got tired of us saying it was really his second cruise. LoL

I like the way you think...wish I had the cash, we'd never survive the pole reversal/micronova on the open seas in a boat like that though...but we'd be safe up until then.
We could, however, ride it out between two east/west mountain ranges on land though...that's how Noah did it.

Lmao makes me think of the Cleveland cowards!

If they are included in the EU there are significant fees and inspections that most sailors would rather avoid. Panama, Marshall Isl., Cayman Isl., are favorites. Cayman is part of the Red Ensign Group which has protection promised by the British Royal Navy.

I know a good many people who live on their yachts. A yacht is a boat with sails on it I was told. They anchor at various places along Clear Lake (Houston) and run up and down the Ship Channel and into the Gulf of Mexico. They are a fun group.

Make a bank deposit and Switzerland will give you a flag!

$5Au thinks if enough producers banded together, it could be done.

Probably all the ones that accept the Principality of Sealand.

What "authority" or regime would "recognize" us as a new country? They don't want anyone to be freed from enslavement.
Maybe if we are all poor, non-white, communists.

Maybe we can assert our is a new country?