Fuck Yeah! I say let's buy it and sail around the south Pacific with Mark. We could rig up some kind of ultra wideband satellite internet uplink and be a floating geek/creative autonomous zone.

has any one read "snow crash" by neal stevenson ?

Maintenance on that bad boy would cost you a coupla hundred thou a year, minimum. And that's just to keep it from falling to bits. If you actually wanted to take it out for a stroll, you'd be talking real money.

But say you just wanted to dock it someplace and rent it out to tour the and banquet crowd. If you fixed it up nice and pretty, you might be able to just keep financially afloat. Even that would be tough outside a very major market.

Now if you could somehow get it to Vegas....