Floating wavebreak

A floating wavebreak could perhaps be considered the "Holy Grail" of seasteading. The reasons for this are many, the challenges no fewer.

The primary use of a floating wavebreak would be to create a floating atoll inside of which would reside a community of seasteads.

Benefits

• The only engineering requirements for a seastead protected by a floating wavebreak are that it is buoyant and stable in calm water and worst case ambient wind conditions.
• The cost of a floating wavebreak can be expected to be roughly proportional to its perimeter, and thus to the width of the area it encompasses. The area it protects is roughly proportional (within reason) to the square of its width. Consequently it benefits from economy of scale.
• By reducing the engineering cost of a seastead needed to join the community, it can enable seasteading for those unable to afford lone seastead technology, thus improving social equality and community heterogenity.

Caveats

• A financially feasible mature technology for providing a floating wavebreak is yet to arrive
• It has a higher "entry barrier" than lone seastead technologies
• Many engineering challenges exist regarding the management of the seasteads protected by the wavebreak in order to prevent collisions and to keep order.