Support The Project - Freedom Haven

Please, contribute $5 towards Phase 2 of the New Liberty vessel.

4 of the most common ways to show your support

Venmo.com/u/FreedomHaven – Freedom Haven’s Phase 2 Venmo account.
PayPal.me/FreedomHaven – Freedom Haven’s Phase 2 PayPal account.
Patreon.com/FreedomHaven – Freedom Haven’s Phase 2 Patreon page.
Bitcoin – Send bitcoin to: bc1qax6rp3ts6puvnx5znfygry9hh652pj2jcxj5yd
Monero – Send Monero to: 43hqd1wJ6rVe5dxJx1x7VaHdWXVfRDZNJPuA56RY6r2jf5qejdCiwbRHQkogSY1Nwr8rPB7j2VJi3K8mowUMLJ9V5M1DNLJ
Other options include:
- Cash app: $FreedomHavenOrg
- Mailing check: Freedom Haven C/O Tony Olsen, 118 High Street, Keokuk, IA, 52632, USA
- Buy a T-Shirt:
  
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- Other: Call me directly: 515-468-7364

Most used payment types as of 6/10/2024

Plan

Chapter 5 (6.5 minutes) of the longer introduction video (18 minutes) explains our financial plan:

As mentioned previously, the country of Freedom Haven will eventually have multiple floating structures and ships, each acting as its own province under the single Freedom Haven Constitution, which preserves the highest level of freedom possible. On this page, we’ll share the latest progress on our plan for modeling, prototyping, and building the structure for the city which we call “New Liberty”. New Liberty will have similar dimensions to these mega-structures, except it’ll be shorter and won’t have a bow because it’ll be stationary at a constant GPS location so that other vessels can always find it.

Modern floating city cost comparison.
(Images of USS Gerald R Ford, Symphony of the Seas, and HMM Algeciras from Wikimedia)
(Estimated Annual Cost of Living image only)

The current plan has the purchase and construction of New Liberty occurring in 4 phases, with lessons-learned from each phase fine-tuning the plans in the subsequent phases:

Phase 1: Initial Designs And Plans
(completed)

A 3D printout of an older version of the model

$0. This was built out-of-pocket as the initial design was fine-tuned and 3d printed.
Created 1:1000th scale model
Worked on the initial design, constitution, financial plan, possible locations, etc.

Phase 2: Exploratory Campaign
(currently in progress)

1:87th scale model. The person added for scale.

$5 per TEU until all 4,000 TEUs are accounted for
Create 1:87th (HO/H0) scale model for presentations
Possible location for larger model: Mississippi River, Ephemerisle, and other locations we’re invited to. Will need to be hauled in a custom trailer we’ll be constructing for this purpose.
Fundraising Campaign:
- Venmo.com/u/FreedomHaven
- PayPal.me/FreedomHaven
- Patreon.com/FreedomHaven
- More options listed above

Phase 3: SHI Design & Prototyping

Samsung Heavy Industries‘ Geoje Shipyard
(Image from the Maritime Executive)

₿0.02 ($500) per TEU until all 4,000 TEUs are accounted for
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Possible location: South Korea.

Phase 4: SHI Construction & Deploy

₿2.68 ($64,495) per TEU (current estimate of average – some will cost more or less depending on the chosen location and weight limits) until all 4,000 TEUs are accounted for. The total price for a resulting TEU is the costs of R&D from phases 2 and 3 plus the phase 4 cost.
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Possible location: Built in South Korea and then moved to Bay of Bengal (near Malaysia/Singapore outside the EEZ of all existing nations).
Additional details: More specific breakdown of Phase 4 can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LibertarianSeasteading/posts/956548624924703/

Status Update:

There’s a live open-to-the-public Zoom video chat on the first Saturday of each month where updates are given, ideas discussed, and questions answered. More frequent updates occur on our main Facebook group. Below is the latest Freedom Haven financial update, released monthly (click for a higher-resolution image).