I cant find plans on a 75' or bigger help me design one

[W9GFO]

... ill pay you 200 dallors every weekend on top of paid food and hotel if you make reasonable progress...

That's abysmal pay. I would have laughed at that 25 years ago when I was making three times that scraping varnish. At $2,000 a week you might start to get some interest...

 

[Stephen Ditmore]

Oh come on this is really easy. Go buy some trawler the size you want, take the pilothouse and everything else off, put a nice clean straight deck on her and you have your drone carrier. Any respectable yard can do the work if you really have the money.

Or even simpler go buy or charter the first motoryacht with a helicopter landing pad thats available in your area. No need to wait months. If you charter it even comes with a crew so you do not have to bother learning anything about boats. Just tell the captain where to and fork over the needed money.

Simpler still, buy a crew/supply boat. They've always been cheaper than yachts. Now that the price of oil is down I'll bet there are a bunch on the market.

 

[Stephen Ditmore]

Oh come on this is really easy. Go buy some trawler the size you want, take the pilothouse and everything else off, put a nice clean straight deck on her and you have your drone carrier. Any respectable yard can do the work if you really have the money.

Or even simpler go buy or charter the first motoryacht with a helicopter landing pad thats available in your area. No need to wait months. If you charter it even comes with a crew so you do not have to bother learning anything about boats. Just tell the captain where to and fork over the needed money.

Simpler still, buy a crewboat. They've always been cheaper than yachts. Now that the price of oil is down I'll bet there are a bunch on the market. Here's a 112 ft: http://www.oceanmarine.com/detail.cfm?category_current_sub=9&product_id=13355. There are lots of smaller ones. Looks like you could launch a drone off this 47' to me: http://www.oceanmarine.com/detail.cfm?category_current_sub=9&product_id=4522. Here are some nice looking ones: http://www.workboatsinternational.com/crew-boats-for-sale.html including this new one: http://www.workboatsinternational.com/new-build-22-meter-36-pax-crew-boat-its1218.html and this contemporary looking Aussie one: http://www.workboatsinternational.com/crew-boat-svs876.html.

 

[Mr Efficiency]

Still has a way to go to rival the submarine train, here.

 

[gonzo]

I don't know. The submarine guy was on a tight budget. Here we have a self-made millionaire with an engineering degree from MIT.

 

[Boat Design Net Moderator]

Probably a good time to bring this thread to a close.