I Have Always Dreamed Of Living On A Boat,

impractical I know,

but it did not stop me dreaming, and of course the main problem is size, so I was interested to hear that an aircraft carrier was up for sale from the Brazilian Navy, so it will certainly be big enough to live on board, I decided to look up a few facts about the carrier, France sold Foch to Brazil in 2000, and the renamed Sao Paulo carried out exercises and launched Brazil’s AF-1 Skyhawk attack planes from her flat, catapult-launch deck, similar to U.S. carriers and the Charles de Gaulle, France’s sole remaining fleet carrier, Brazil paid France $12 million for the carrier but sank $100 million more keeping her seaworthy, fires broke out aboard the vessel at least twice, once in 2004 and again 2012, the accidents forced costly repairs and kept the carrier in port for long periods of time, Sao Paulo was supposed to rejoin the fleet in 2013, but the accidents kept sidelining her. “By the end of 2016, Sao Paulo was still undergoing repairs and there were reports that it might take another decade to get the ship fully operational again,” Joe Trevithick noted at The War Zone, “By the time the Brazilian navy finally decided to just retire the ship in 2017, it was the world's oldest commissioned aircraft carrier,” Trevithick continued, “In the better part of two decades that the flattop had flown the Brazilian flag, she had spent just 206 days at sea.” so a bit unreliable then, and where do I get $1.275 million from as the opening bid? also where would I park it? no I think we will stick with the flat! but it has to be said, a snip considering what was paid for it, and the money spent on repairs! picture source: Brazilian Navy.