The beauty of the used houseboat solution is that you get a floating living space that is conveniently equipped with everything you need. The downside it is only useable in protected water – means not on open ocean. So how can we make it open ocean capeable in a secondary building process?
Building a complete concrete shell around it ? – ferrosheeting? –
What about building a floating breakwater ring or U-shape around it and have it moored in the center like a spider. The breakwater takes the open ocean waves and the houseboat stays in conditions similar to a marina box. Rafting up breakwater rings with all kind of non standardized houseboats inside we get a semi permanent floating come together – seastead marina is born.
We could sell breakwater rings as “houseboat upgrade kit” .