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Ocean Builders’ response to the Thai Navy moving our…

April 21, 2019April 21, 2019
by Media Relations

According to several news sources in Thailand, the Thailand Navy plans on removing our seastead and dismantling it. We urge them to speak with us on this issue as moving the seastead could be dangerous and someone could get hurt if they do not understand how the complex structure works. This is not something that you can just tow and place on land. It was meant to stay upright and continue to stay upright.

The idea that the seastead poses any sort of ship traffic threat is absolutely not true. The seastead has been in its location since February 2nd. We have all of the necessary beacons and navigation devices necessary to warn any ship from miles away of our location. Fishing ships and fish traps utilize that area for fishing, it is not in any shipping lane otherwise the cargo ships would be hitting fishing boats or going over fish traps daily.

We are offering to move the seastead ourselves at our own expense and are working on determining a safe location outside of Thai maritime waters.

We are overwhelmed by the extraordinary response by people around the world that have not only shown support for Chad and Nadia as well as those who have signed up on our website to buy seasteads. Our tracker on the main website is not dynamic so it does not display the amount of new buyers that have expressed interest but we have over 300 responses pending in our e-mail of people who have checked one of the three boxes on our website of “I want to buy a seastead”, “I am interested but would like more information” or “I want to find out more information”.

Rest assured, we will build seasteads even if the location is not in Thailand. We already have been contacted by several countries around the world that can see the potential of the innovation, the tourism and economic growth that their nation will receive once they have a wealth of new commerce and tourism off of their coast.

We are going through the potential locations reviewing the sea conditions of each place to find the best place to start. As we are just getting started we have been focused on locations with low waves and no hurricanes. We would also like to ensure that the location has a history of respecting international law and treaties relating to the open sea.

We felt that the calm waters of the Andaman Seas were ideal and we may have a new location with one of Thailand’s neighbors who is more open to seeing the economic potential of our seastead building business in their country supplying jobs to their people.

The timing of the Thai Navy could not have been any worse for having diplomatic discussions with Thailand (which we reached out to but Thailand is very difficult when it comes to such matters).

Our rationale for our approach was the following:
1. first build a prototype and prove that the concept works

2. Advertise this to a group of potential buyers

3. Collect earnest money from people with a “serious” interest

4. Use that list as a negotiation position with the proper authorities of Thailand for the creation of a conceptual model including some tourist attractions in harmony with the laws and the demands of Thailand

5. After the permission by Thailand was granted, collect a real down payment from the list of earnest money participants and reward them by giving them the unit at cost

6. After the down payments were received, underwrite contracts with suppliers and builders

7. Deliver the product after the collection of final payment.

Our initial sale was to begin April 15th. The Thai Navy released their news about Chad and Nadia just two days before.

We were not able to begin the sale to see how many expressions of interest would actually result in orders but we did have an order for an underwater restaurant, three SeaBnBs (bungalow type hotel units) and a tuna farmer (who understood that they would need to file all of the correct permits to do so in Thailand maritime waters).

We are open to discussions with all governments around the world who understand the economic potential of this new industry of building seasteads for the new frontier as well as an answer to the inevitable sea level rise that will begin eroding many nations coasts.

Potential national governments should contact us here at admin@ocean.builders

We implore any Thai authorities involved in trying to remove the seastead to also contact that e-mail address to give us your contact information so that we can at least advise you on how to safely move the seastead (even if you’re one of the engineers tasked with finding the solution, we are engineers, we can help).

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Official Ocean Builders stance on the legality of the…

April 19, 2019April 19, 2019
by Media Relations

Chad and Nadia have been depicted in the press of performing illegal activities. We fully reject this for the following reasons:

1. The seasted in question is outside the territorial waters of Thailand and was never intended to ever intrude into territorial waters of Thailand. Insofar it is impossible by logic that we endanger the sovereignty of Thailand or are guilty of respective crimes applicable within Thailand.

2. The claim of the Thai authorities, that the seasted would be WITHIN territorial waters of Thailand, is obviously false. It is clearly outside the 12 miles-zone. Here are the coordinates: 7.487162, 98.581792

Everybody can check this on his or her own.

3. The seasted is within the so-called Contiguous Zone (12-24 nautical miles). Here, very limited regulation is applicable. According to Article 33 of United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas (UNCLOS), of which Thailand is a party, only the following areas are subject to Thai authority:

a) prevention of infringement of customs laws and regulations – not applicable; we do neither want to trade or produce something that is imported into Thailand; we buy products on the mainland and pay the usual tax there, we do not further export those items.

b) prevention of infringement of fiscal laws and regulations – we are not planning to create any tax loopholes for people that have taxable activity in Thailand; all items we have ordered in Thailand are subject to Thai VAT and income tax for the Thai sellers; the shipyard in Phuket that built the seasted has us treated like any other buyer from Thailand.

c) prevention of infringement of immigration laws and regulations – we are not planning to let people immigrate through our seasted; instead all people coming to us must clear immigration with Thailand before.

d) prevention of infringement of sanitary laws and regulations – we are ecologically and sanitarily sustainable; one of the things we want to prove is that this is possible while living on the sea. The home has six 220 Watt solar panels feeding 6 marine grade batteries which provide power to the seastead. The seastead has a water maker to convert sea water to fresh water. Any biodegradable waste was used to feed the flourishing fish population below the seastead and any other waste is properly disposed of (not into the ocean).

4. It has been the official stance of Ocean Builders to be apolitical and we have no intention of creating an “independent state” nor a “micro nation”. The same is true for Chad and Nadia who are just a loving couple of two seasteading pioneers who want to live free on the seas, thereby respecting applicable regulation of UNCLOS and the rights of Thailand within the Contiguous Zone. The two of them present neither a danger to Thai sovereignty nor the shipping routes.

5. Our seasted is so small (6 meters wide) and not located near any known shipping route, so that the claim it would hinder ship movements is ridiculous and must be outrightly rejected. There is no need to destroy, sink or remove our seasted. Any respective activity would be illegal. We are reserving all of our property rights on the seasted insofar.

6. If the Thai authorities insist on their false claims against us, we are prepared to bring the case to the International Court of the Law of the Seas (ITCLOS) for further clarification.

7. The seasted-technology that we use is new, innovative, affordable and it has been realized by Thai shipyards. This is a remarkable achievement, bringing Thai shipyards to the top of the world. The technology could be used and sold worldwide, for example in areas where sea levels are rising. Also, an experimental community including an underwater restaurant would be a worldwide tourist attraction to the benefit of Thailand. A win-win situation could be created. To settle the dispute, we are willing to make a formal agreement with Thai authorities defining in detail our legal status within the Contiguous Zone, thereby fully respecting Thailand’s rights and interests and creating more wealth for the whole Phuket area.

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Independent proof that the first seastead was outside of…

April 18, 2019April 18, 2019
by Media Relations

This expert analysis of the position of the seastead was recently posted on Facebook by Dr. Daniel Nagy.

Where is/was Ocean Builders‘ seastead?

Locating a small seastead quietly bobbing about surrounded by water from horizon to horizon is no trivial task. In fact, the residents themselves had problems finding the spar before placing the living platform on top of it.

The Third Naval Area Command of the Royal Thai Navy has filled a police complaint against the residents, Chad and Nadia, alleging that the structure was within the territorial waters of Thailand. I have good reasons to believe that this must be a mistake.

Ocean Builders have kindly agreed to place my GPS logger onboard the seastead for research purposes. The logger itself (an Android mobile phone placed in a watertight electric box) collects location information and whenever it has a chance to go online by wifi, it sends me updates. Now, unfortunately, such opportunities were quite rare, so my most recent update is from 2019-02-17T16:52:52.000Z (February 17, 2019) However, for a few days up to that point, the seastead was already anchored at its final location. The most recent coordinates from my logger are 7.487162,98.581792.

Follow this link to see the location in Google Maps:
https://goo.gl/maps/2SoeuEpVcRecpoBU7

location of the first seastead:
7.487162, 98.581792

You can use the distance measurement tool of Google Maps to find its distance from the nearest land: 25.9 km (14 nautical miles) to Ko Racha Yai, a Thai island. This places it inside Thailand’s Contiguous Zone, but outside of its territorial waters.

In order not to interfere with shipping traffic, they have also placed an AIS tracker onboard and registered it under the name XLII. Unfortunately, no online database has it under this identifier, but MarineTraffic has been showing a stationary vessel at almost the exact same location for months now:
https://www.marinetraffic.com/…/cente…/centery:7.487/zoom:13

Even though it is designated “Traipakee 2”, a tanker, there are good reasons to believe that this is, in fact, XLII’s AIS transponder under an erroneous designation, as it has been stationary for months and would have been well within visual range from the seastead; yet, no stationary tankers or other vessels are visible on any of the videos from the seastead.

Updates from this particular AIS tracker are regularly received, implying that the seastead is very probably still afloat. It would be interesting if somebody could confirm with a direct visual observation either from sea or from air.

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Official Statement about the sinking of the first seastead

April 15, 2019April 18, 2019
by Media Relations

We at Ocean Builders would first like to thank all of the people who have sent their support and help. We do appreciate it.

It has been reported that the first seastead, XLII, has been or is in the process of being demolished by the Thai navy. It is also being reported that our first residents, Chad Elwartowski and Nadia Summergirl are being held responsible for building the seastead and putting it in its current location.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Chad and Nadia were volunteers excited about the prospect of living free. They took pictures and videos of the whole process and posted it on social media. They spent a few weeks on the seastead and documented their adventure.
They were in no way involved in the design,

construction, decision on where it was locatd or any funding for the construction of the seastead. If you read the Reason article that describes the seastead accurately writes the facts:
” The team surrounding the project were early adopters of bitcoin, and with wealth acquired that way it has spent around $150,000 on the project “
Other news articles took this to mean that Chad Elwartowski funded the project because he was also an early adopter of bitcoin. Chad did not spend any of his own money on the project other than perhaps some sheets for the bed and he brought all of his own dishware when he moved in.

Chad and Nadia are safe for now but understand that Thailand is currently being run by a military dictator. There will be no trial if they are caught. They already demonstrated that by being judge jury and executioner of the historic very first seastead.

The reason Thailand was chosen was due to the large amount of tourism, its relatively calm seas and also because all of those involved love the Thai people and their culture.

It is claimed by the Thai navy through their media mouth pieces that the seastead is in a shipping lane. This makes it sound like there is heavy cargo traffic coming to Phuket. If anyone knows Phuket, they have one cargo port that gets maybe one or two cargo ships a week. They also admit that the seastead is in international waters, at least 12 nautical miles from land. This would infer that they are 12 nautical miles from land on either side of the seastead which would put the shipping lane at at least 24 nautical miles. The seastead is 6 meters wide. It has a very bright anchor beacon and has a registered AIS beacon which can be detected by any boat with any sort of navigation in the vicinity.

The area is a heavy fishing area with many many fishing boats trawling the water there daily. The fishing boat captains used to wave at Nadia and Chad as they passed by. They were in no way bothered by the floating home. The seastead takes up less space in the shipping lane than a fishing boat.

We hope this issue can be resolved diplomatically with the Thai government and are ready to talk to anyone in charge at any time. We have tried several times to talk to anyone but were always told that we have nothing to worry about because we are legally in international waters.

The April 15th sale of seasteads is to be postponed until we can get everything straightened out and figure out the best path forward for everyone.

Update:
Some reports indicate that the XLII seastead has not been demolished and is awaiting such a task. We hope that we can work with the Thai government on a beneficial resolution to this whole situation. Our hope was always to donate the platform to a University for marine research.
Our AIS beacon is still displaying our position 13 nautical miles from Thailand outside of Thailand’s territorial waters. This indicates to us that the structure is still there.

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April 15th, Initial Seastead Offering

April 10, 2019April 10, 2019
by elwar

On April 15th we will be holding our Initial Seastead Offering (ISeaO) to find the first 20 seasteaders who can put in their earnest money of 1% of the price of the seastead. This will show us the level of interest in actually creating seasteads instead of just talking about it.

We are selling the first seasteads without money spent on marketing or promoting, paying media for good press, no fancy brochures to try to encourage people to buy our seastead. We want the first 20 to be people who actually get it, and understand why seasteading is such an important thing.

Below we show some of the pictures we have been hashing out with our contractors.

The platform will be close to the prototype but will have rounded off walls and a walkway around the exterior. We will also locate the ladder to the outside in a way that climbs up the first few steps then utilizes the curve of the wall to climb the last portion.

The dimensions for the deck are 6 meters in diameter while the interior is slightly wider than the prototype due to the rounded shape at close to 7 meters in diameter.

The plan is to keep the interior as a fairly open floor plan with a few stock configurations while the pipes for the plumbing will likely be in the same locations for all configurations to keep costs down.
An owners suite with bedroom, bathroom and kitchen will be the standard configuration while other configurations for timeshares, SeaBnBs and other uses are being hashed out.

The spar will be completely dry inside, moving away from the prototype configuration of having the ballast inside the cylinder. In this way we will have separate floors within the cylinder of 3 meter diameter with the option for a ladder, spiral staircase or an elevator to go from floor to floor.
The bottom floor is a half meter crawl space used for storage of batteries, a fan to circulate air and a bilge to pump out any possible water entering the spar.

We understand that many people cannot buy a seastead and move their whole lives to Thailand immediately. We are working with a few new companies in property management and timeshare services so that there will be every option available to you to invest in this new industry and continue your day job until you can finally move to your seastead and join us in this great adventure.

I look forward to a big day on April 15th. Where we can show the world that seasteading is happening here in 2019. Enough of the talk. No more arguing, only seasteading.

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Engineering update. Dropping anchor.

March 18, 2019March 18, 2019
by elwar

A quick update. We dropped the third anchor and finally fixed the water maker.

When we were putting the spar in the water one of the lines got tangled up in the propeller of the boat. We were able to get it free but not without damage. We dropped the anchor and returned to land.

The next time we went out we found that there was one mooring ball floating free from the spar and there were only 2 lines on the spar. This was not too big of a concern since one anchor is sufficient to keep the spar in place but three is better. Also there is a slight turn to the spar with the current. This is a natural phenomenon where the current passes around the cylinder causing a rotation affect (this affect willl lessen with enough coral around the seastead). Oil platforms have a helix around their spars to deal with this affect.

With only two anchor lines attached this meant that the spar would rotate a lot in bad weather along with the big waves. This gave a whipping motion which was not pleasant in high winds. The whole station would turn 90 degrees or so. A slow pace of about 10 seconds or so but still unpleasant. In low waves it is not that big of a deal, you just see different views every once in a while looking out the door.

We have been waiting a while because the logistics of getting another anchor out there is not easy. We used a local fishing boat to do it last time but I’m assuming that the large gash put in the side when we dropped the 200kg anchor over the side left the boat owner hesitant to do it again. Our usual sailboat is fiberglass and would not fare so well from dropping an anchor, and there’s really no place on board to drop it from.

When Nadia and I bought our new boat we realized that the swim ramp on the back was perfect for holding up an anchor. So we waited until the boat was ready to take it out. We loaded the anchor and two chains with the long rope and went out to the site. We attached the chain to the spar then let out the rope and attached the rope to the chain and drove off at a 120 angle from the other two anchors. We pulled for a while but the current kept pushing the boat in one direction toward the other anchor. Without forward movement the boat could not use the rudder to turn.

After using the dinghy to line us up at the right angle we dropped the anchor (attached to the rope). Checking it out the next day we were closer to 70 degrees as opposed to 120. As we were getting back to the correct position the rope had formed a curve so it was off by a bit.

But the third anchor showed a noticeable difference. Any rotation movement was cut down quite a bit. It still rotates but around 10 degrees at a time.

With the anchor all set, we got to work on the water maker. This has been my number one priority since we moved in. Most of my days have been spent trying to get the thing working (after I got the toilet working which was the first high priority).

The water maker is gravity fed. On boats this is fine because they just put the water maker below the water line. But with the seastead we do not want to put any unneccessary holes in the spar to act as weak points that could eventually sink it. So we tried many different things to find out exactly how much suction the water maker has. Not enough to pull water from the sea but we were able to put a bucket in the floor and it would pull from there. Verifying that the water maker worked by pouring water into the bucket we realized that we had found a solution.

We had a pump and we had some line but we did not have the attachments for them so we tried using what we had there to get it to work but in the end we needed the correct fittings for it to pump water up 2 meters. We bought a bilge pump that can be submerged and brought that to the site. Only to find out that our hose was a different size. Again trying to jerry rig things it was not successful.

Finally in our last trip to land we bought the right sized hose and we bought a water level switch.

We got the pump into the water below with the hose going up to the bucket. The switch sits on top of the bucket and turns on when the water gets too low. With everything set we were successful in filling the bucket with sea water with the pump turning off automatically when it reached a certain level. Then we were able to turn on the water maker which sucks the water out of the bucket and converts it to fresh water. As the water level in the bucket goes down it gets refilled by the pump. A bit crude for now but it works. The production version will have a similar setup but a bit more elegant.

Now we have fresh clean water which makes a very big difference for living. Water was the main thing limiting the amount of time we could stay and we hate bringing water bottles out to the seastead. Now we can get some sort of Brita filter and drink the water we have in the house.

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What do seasteaders do all day?

March 9, 2019March 9, 2019
by elwar

We tend to get asked what we do all day on the seastead…

I spend most of my day online answering peoples’ questions about pirates…

Really though…I look forward to getting back to the site this week but my day is usually spent fixing the last bits that we couldn’t take care of in time. I spent about 4 days on the water maker (they’re meant to get their water from below sea level, not 2 meters up). I had to get those blue barrels that were in the video up to the top. Fighting with a barrel half full of water in waves is exhausting. We had a lot of stuff that was necessary for the raising of the platform that was no longer needed (like the cone on top and the big metal plate on top). The metal plate had 24 bolts I had to take off then Nadia and I had to lift it off (it was stuck and very heavy). We had to cut the cone into pieces to fit it out the door. Cutting the cone left metal dust all over the floor which took a while to clean up (still not quite fully clean). Hauling up buckets of sea water for washing dishes. Early on we were hauling up buckets of seawater for our toilet water until I figured out how to get the water working. We had a water pump burn out so I had to troubleshoot the problem then figure out how to replace it. Fortunately we had a spare.We have some final welding to do and there is also a slight tilt that we’ve been working on. That requires me hanging from the side on a rope while jacking up one of the sides to make room for a wooden board.Some of the welding also requires hanging off the side from a rope while swinging and waves making you move while it’s hard to use both hands and stay steady.

I also need to spray paint the Ocean Builders website on the side so that when these fish boats come by wondering what we are they can go check the website. And to promote the site when people take pictures of it. This also requires me hanging from a rope off the side. We have the 3rd anchor ready and will be taking it out with my boat. That will require diving down to attach the chain/rope then driving off in the 3rd direction pulling slightly on the spar until all lines are taut. Then hopefully it’s a matter of cutting the rope that’s holding the anchor up. And hopefully my boat can handle the weight of the anchor, rope and chains in one location.

And we haven’t even gotten to the point of unpacking all of our stuff. Which is why we tend to avoid videos of the interior…since we have full suitcases sitting on the floor and tools all over the place. Still a partial construction zone. Nadia doesn’t have any shelves yet for her food so it sits on the floor in the kitchen waiting for me to get to that.

Now I have a used boat…which shouldn’t require any time at all…

Nadia usually spends the day fishing, cooking and helping me when I need it and telling me I need to take a break and eat. She goes down in the water snorkeling and tries to get her seaweed to grow (as the fish eat it). She tries to make it up to the deck every day for the sunset. I usually miss it. Then at night we get online and spread the news of the seastead via social media.

I get to read online how bored we must be.

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How much does one of our seasteads cost?

February 11, 2019February 12, 2019
by elwar

Ok, this is one of the most common questions asked so I’ll go a bit into detail on the answer here.

The response on the Ocean.Builders website is
“We are trying to keep the price as close as possible to an average US family home for the minimal seastead with the option to add features such as Air Conditioning, more solar, upgraded kitchen, etc.”
“The first 20 will be sold at cost.”

If that sounds a bit ambiguous then you are right. The fact is that we cannot give an exact answer until we have the quotes from the contractors for the new design. We can estimate based on the prototype build but we do plan on upgrading the design based upon our lessons learned on the build process for the prototype. This should raise the cost. But we will also be buying in bulk. This should lower the cost. As we get closer to having the first 20 pre-sold (serious buyers indicating their willingness to buy one) we will give them a more precise number as we move forward with arranging the construction.

For now we are targeting a price of $150,000 for the minimum price of a barebones seastead. We are not yet sure how barebones that would be nor what may be included. Likely close to what the prototype has. A no frills seastead. Closer to $200,000 would likely give you a move-in ready seastead with a nice kitchen, water, solar electric, etc.

Again, we do not plan on making any money on the first 20 seasteads, but we also do not plan on losing money either so we may buffer the estimate by a couple of percent due to the lesson learned from the prototype that we need to keep going to the store to buy things for the seastead that we may have missed.

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For many of the contacts we have had so far, they are interested in buying a portion of a seastead either as an investment or as something they can visit once in a while. This is understandable as many people who have enough money to buy a seastead need to live where they live to earn that money.

While we could certainly offer timeshares or shares of seasteads, we would rather focus our resources on building the best seasteads we can deliver. While car manufacturers may make most of their money on financing we would love to leave those profits to another entrepreneur who wants to get involved and make money in such a venture.

This would be a great opportunity for anyone with any experience in this area to get in on the ground floor. We would be willing to work closely with you to make it happen and offer a great service to future seasteaders. It would be an ideal way to test out some blockchain based solutions as well.

From what we have seen, there are four types of seasteads that will need to be built. An owner’s version, a timeshare version, a long term rental version and a short stay version. They would all have the same structure and shell but the setup may be different for each one. For example, a short stay version may not need to focus as much on the kitchen as the owner’s version. A non-owners version could come complete with furniture and be move-in ready for customers utilizing bulk purchases to bring down costs.

For the first 20 seasteads, Chad and Nadia will be open to helping with property management early on as this first step will be difficult and they are at the location 24/7 already.

If you are interested in setting up a business to coordinate investors into seasteading let us know at admin@ocean.builders. We could even coordinate a few people that are interested if you would like to get in contact with others to form a company.

Otherwise we will move forward to provide this option if nobody is interested as we wish to see this happen and are excited about getting a community of seasteaders in the sea.

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A view from below the seastead

February 10, 2019February 10, 2019
by elwar

While there are many pictures of the seastead above water.

Here are a few pictures from down below the seastead.

Below we have the bottom of the spar with fish floating all around. The bottom four posts were put there in case we had a large amount of up and down motion. The plan was to put some steel dampeners to prevent such motion. Fortunately there is virtually zero up and down motion (only a small sidewards movement when the waves hit the spar).
The ear on the side was because the contractor initially thought we were going to attach the anchor lines to the bottom of the spar. The anchor lines were then added to the center of the spar.

Below is a view from the bottom looking up. As you can see, the fish have really taken to hanging out around the seastead. They love it. Previously we would visit the site to do some surveys of various things at that location and we hardly saw any fish out there. Now it like a fish sanctuary. We see dolphins and tuna around our seastead all the time.
It is my theory that this small place is the only place the vast amount of Thai fishing boats cannot go to so they thrive here as opposed to in the open water where the fishing nets may sweep them up.

We have future plans to create a coral garden growing all along the side of the spar, much like someone may have a garden in their back yard. Using coralcrete we can create an artificial reef that should thrive with sea life. Being stationary we do not need to worry about growth on the “outer hull”. It actually helps with some of the sideward motion due to fluid dynamics.

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First seastead has been set up in international waters

February 4, 2019February 5, 2019
by elwar

On February 2nd after almost a month of preparation and waiting for ideal wave conditions, Ocean Builders has raised the world’s first seastead in international waters 12 nautical miles out from Phuket, Thailand.

Sun setting as the team raises the platform for the first time

Ocean Builders has built a spar design seastead over the past several months which consists of a large steel cylinder that sits vertically in the water with a fiberglass platform sitting atop the spar which acts as the living space. The spar was placed into the water on January 3rd and the platform placed in the water a week later in preparation for this event.

Now, with the first single family home built to remain floating in international waters, Ocean Builders has set a new path for those that wish to seek a new frontier by living on the sea permanently without the interference of legacy governments.

While this is merely a prototype to prove the concept, two brave souls have already moved into the seastead and will be documenting their journey through the Ocean Builders website, Youtube channel and Facebook page. Chad Elwartowski and Supranee Thepdet (Nadia/Bitcoin Girl Thailand) are the first seasteaders but they are anxious to have many new neighbors come and join them.

Chad and Nadia celebrate the raising of the first seastead at a nearby beach

The next phase of the Ocean Builders plan is to make 20 more seasteads with an upgraded design which will include a deeper spar for even more stability and a living space which is not just a barebones prototype design but built around a quality living experience.

Those first 20 customers will get their seasteads almost at cost as a way of rewarding the pioneers willing to take a chance on something new. They will also be instrumental in setting the standards of seasteading governance and culture for those that come join them in the future.

To become one of the first seasteading pioneers and forge a new future with freedom loving individuals from around the world or just to get updates and information on what is going on go to https://ocean.builders and sign up.

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