
Issue #: 14
Published: August / September 2020
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The looming economic crisis is motivating more than one builder to design and launch smaller, simpler and less expensive multihulls... but the gloomy context doesn't stop us from dreaming...
Check out this hallucinating project by German naval architects, Beiderbeck Designs: their catamaran, a real floating city, is nearly 650 feet (200 meters) long and houses a marina inside - with no less than 260 feet (80 meters) of dock space. As for the amenities: an open-air cinema, an Olympic swimming pool, a hospital, a helicopter and all the water toys you could dream of for a successful cruise. Galileo² offers a top speed of 22 knots and a range of 19,000 miles. It is designed to accommodate 38 guests, although requires 75 crew members - and will cost £450 billion according to our colleagues at Mailonline (Daily Mail). Is that a typo? Probably: this amount corresponds to a third of Australia's GDP... 500 million euros would be more likely when you consider the cost of the world's largest cruise ship - 1.2 billion euros. We have contacted the architects for confirmation.
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