The attached article triggered the Residensea venture.

I thought out the concept in the nineteen eighties, but didn't 
pursue the project until I got deported back to Norway in 1994.

When this article was written no one had suggested privatizing 
cruiseships, or subdividing such into separate lots and selling 
these off to different owners.

This article has been posted to my first website on the Internet 
since the Summer of 1994.

In the second half of 1994 and the first half of 1995 
I approached about 20 people in the Norwegian cruise industry,
and gave a copy to several that were or had been involved in RCCL 
or Kloster Cruise/Vard.

I even briefly mentioned the idea to Kloster senior on the phone 
while his son was with him. 

Phone numbers and names of everyone I spoke to will be provided 
upon request.

A local shipping broker got a copy and promissed to pass this on 
to the Kloster/Vard team.

The people at RCCL (the young Preben Willhelmsen etc.) 
were not interested, but 
Kloster junior organized the venture two years later 
without my further involvement.

Today the first boat is completed.

Now the next task is to talk someone into implementing my 
land based free port venture! (See separate article about 
livable survival of total warfare.)
  

Sincerely

Trygve Bauge

Ps. My e-mail address is the same now as then trygveb@powertech.no
but the address and phone number listed in the article no longer 
applies.


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Subject:  PRIVATIZATION OF CRUISE SHIPS  v.94/11/06 by Trygve
Bauge. Copyright 1994 

Summary: This is an article from Active Life Extension, the life
extension manual, for more try http://www.powertech.no/~trygveb/
Keywords: Individual life extension, entrepreneurial liberty,
(including freedom-of-contract, -travel and -trade) and private
property, promoted and defended.
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PRIVATIZATION OF CRUISESHIPS.

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I suggest we put together a development company with the purpose
of acquiring and developing a cruiseship as a floating freeport
and village, with its own mall, research park, and business park,
and with a variety of competing accomodations, dining venues, shops
and other services. 

I suggest we privatize all services on board a cruiseship, let each
service be sold separately, open up for onboard competition, sell
off all the suites, let it be up to each suite owner how to remodel
his suite and what to use it for, and treat the hallways as public
right of ways like on any other mall.

The cruiseship could first be owned and operated by a private
development company, and once all the suites are sold off, the ship
itself and the hallways could be sold off to a local onboard
government that then maintains the ship itself, through a flat rate
boarding fee or an annual fee on private suites based on the size
of the latter. The on board government could be made up of suite
owners, with each having as many votes as the cubic footage of
their suites.

Instead of having one company own and operate all the suites and
services on board, I suggest we sell off all the suites so that
these end up being owned and operated by many separate owners.
I suggest we turn the cruiseship into a floating village, a
floating mall with a variety of competing on board accomodations
and services.

And rather than selling cruises as a packaged deals where all
services are included in the price, I suggest we instead operate
the cruise ship as a floating mall, where the traveler decides what
accomodations, what meals and what other services to buy each day.

Some travelers can still preorder a package deal, but istead of
ordering this from the cruise company they would instead have their
travel agent line up rooms, dining and entertainment from the
various on board companies.

Some bedroom suites could be sold off to individuals, others to a
hotel, some to a motel chain, and others to a youth hostel, thus
creating a variety of competing accomodations on board.

Likewise instead of having a few big restaurants we could open up
for competing food stores and fast food joints as well as smaller
dining establishments on each deck.

The whole restaurant deck might be subdivided as a shopping mall
with a wide walkway or two, letting the suite buyers do their 
own remodeling.

And private mall and bed room suites could be turned into offices,
stores and labs at the whim of each suite owner.

Room service and cleaning could be handled by competing private
cleaning companies, as well as a coin operated laundromat or two.

I am inclined to treat the whole concept as a floating resort town,
much like a ski resort, where anyone can board for free or through
a flat rate toll road, and look around, but then have to pay for
meals, bedrooms, and entertainment.

Suites could be sold off, and resold, to individual private owners,
or through time share arrangements. We would basically create a
resale market for cruiseship suites.

The idea is to create a floating village, where the individual
suite owner, demand and supply and private competition then decide
how each suite will be used, what businesses will be operated on
board and what services will be offered.

Instead of developing a stationary resort village, this would be
a floating village, the main selling point of which would be
that it is a floating freeport in international waters.

Another selling point would be economy cruises, people could brown
bag it, live in youth hostel style bunk beds at economy rate, wash
their own linens in coin operated laundromats, and buy their own
food at the onboard supermarket and prepare it themselves.

Others could buy their very own cruiseship suite like people buy
vacation retreats. People seeking retirment homes or vacation
retreates would get the option of finding such on board cruise
ships. And when not in use by the owners, the suites could be
rented out by management agencies.
 
Companies and corporations who buy condominiums at resort towns
could get a chance of buying cruise ship suites and open these to
time share by their own employees and others.

If the cruiseship stays in international waters, it could serve as
a tax and regulatory heaven, for individuals and companies, whether
they do research, manufacture goods, retail such or provide other
services.

Personally I am looking to create a floating city state where I
would find respect for private property and individual liberty so
that I could go about organizing life extending ventures without
being hassled by draft boards, immigration officials, zoning boards
and other rights violating bureaucrats. There might be other people
too, who would like to own a suite in a floating libertarian
freeport.

The floating village could get its own charter, and thus offer
constitutional protection for individual autonomy, entrepreneurial
liberty, and private property.

Cruises could be presceduled or decided each year by vote among the
suite owners, with each cruise owner voting for one cruise and the
most popular cruises being scheduled.

For safety reasons, we could mandate the use of fire proof
construction materials, add fire walls, and emergency doors that
could be used to split the ship into separate water thight
compartments in case of emergencies, but that otherwise would stay
open and permit easy moving around. Airlocks could be used to
bypass the water locks in emergencies thus permitting escape. And
each suite ought to be equipped with diving gear.

Entry and exit could be handled by helicopter pads on board the
floating village and on board fast supply ships that in their turn
are fed passengers by sea planes and other transportation methods.

Traffic could be handled as in any regular town, the roads are open
to anyone, and if we suddenly get a lot of traffic we just have to
use more traffic cops, and live with the congestion until the
guests leave or we can add another floating village. In general
nightly guests will be limited by the available suites and beds,
and day guests could in emergencies be limited to the boat's safe
capacity, with suite owners and those with bed reservations getting
priority, while others would have to wait in line. Another approach
would be to lower or raise general admission fees so to let the
price fluctuations do the crowd control. e.g. the closer we are to
capacity the more we could increase admission fees, and each time
we have few guests we could let people enter the floating mall for
less or for free.

The main questions are: 
What do used cruisehips retail for?
How could they be subdivided?
What would we have to resell each suite for
so to turn a profit on subdividing it?
What does it cost to move and maintain a cruiseship?
How often would it have to be overhauled?
What is its life expectancy and depreciation?
What would we have to charge annually
just to move and maintain the ship?

Who might want to buy and remodel a part of a cruise ship?
Resort and real estate developers? 
Maybe hotel and motel chains and youth-hostel operators? 
Fast food restaurant chains and laundromat operators? 
Theater and cinema chains, club operators and show promotors?
Health club and health spa chains?
Radio and tv stations, publishers, BBSes and computer servers that
don't want to be censored?
The rich, big tax payers?
Specialty stores cathering to onboard clients.
Entrepreneurs, companies and corporations?
Research labs, alternative and innovative medical programs?
Libertarians, objectivists, survivalists and religious groups?
Retired seamen and other retirees?
Authors and artists?  The general population?

We could also target individual exile organizations that would like
to have their own country, or recruit international companies that
would like to have a mobile offshore headquarter, or we could sail
just outside harbors like Tokyo, New York and Hong Kong, where it
is expensive to build, and where floating villages would be an easy
way to meet demand, while at the same time offering safety from
earth quakes, political unrest and government intervention in
general.

Or the floating village could serve as a freeport just outside
any territorial border, serving as a link to EU, the United States
or the world marked, dependent upon which of these the main land
lacks close connections with itself.  

What I want is to create one free and vibrant floating village,
where I could own or rent a suite, or two, as a headquarter for my
own development projects and other life extending ventures. 

If we prepare a nice presentation and model, we might be able to
prerecruit enough buyers to buy and subdivide one medium size
tourist class cruiseship. Alternatively an existing cruiseship
alreaday in drift could gradually be privatized, with still more
onboard suites and services being sold off.

It might be a worthwile experiment to do a feasibility study,
calculate what we would have to charge to make a profit, set off
a few suites, let it be generally known that these are available
for sale for a specific price, hold an auction with a minimum
asking price. Or even vigourously recruit Mcdonalds, Pizza hut and
other companies to buy a suite and run a franchise or satellite
office on board.

Once we know what we have to charge to make a profit, we can easily
focus on how to rationalize, cut costs, miniaturize and otherwise
come up with how individual activities and ventures can be run more
space- and cost-effectively on board, thus bringing down the cost
of functional suites and increasing the market while still making
a profit.

If the product is good enough and the market is there, we could
just continue to offer suites for sale, continue to auction off
such and continue to recruit buyers.

If we develop one cruiseship village at a profit, the door has been
opened for a new industry: compact floating villages, new floating
city states and a still larger free travel and trade federation
that later could expand into new compact cities in freeports on
shore.

I am looking for an existing cruise line or shipping company that
would like to invest in my company "Global Village 1", or hire me
to help plan and develop such a floating village, mall, business
park and research park as I have outlined above. 

I plan to develop the idea further and would like to meet with you.

Long life,
 
          Trygve B. Bauge

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