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In article .com, R-D-
says...
If there were large offshore barges spotted every 200 miles or so
across the Atlantic Ocean between the USA and Europe do you think there
would be enough business from private boats to keep them profitable?
Fresh water, fuel, food, & drink from just the basics to luxury levels
could be offered at various stopovers. Overnight or longer docking of
course and various entertainment (casinos, theaters etc.). Maybe in
addition to boats they could have a series of barges strung together
with a flat surface to allow a landing strip for smaller aircraft also.
What are the chances it will happen sometime in the future? Any ideas?
Now, outside of the question of mooring large barge in five or six miles
of deep water there is the weather thing. I can speak from experience
when I say a hurricane type sea is not something I would like to be
pinned to the bottom during let alone being stationed on a large barge
in the midst of it.
Then there's the cost and logistics of keeping said barges supplied with
fresh water, gas and oil, mars bars, etc. By the time you got that
covered anyone with a boat big enough to cross a couple of hundred miles
of open ocean and afford the services probably already has a boat big
enough to make the trip unaided.
Nope, not only hasn't it been done I doubt anyone ever gave it more then
five minutes of thought.
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Mike G.
Heirloom Woods
www.heirloom-woods.net
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