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I'd think that it depends more on the wind load than the mass of the ship. An Iowa Class battleship is around 887 ft long and around 30 feet from the waterline

I'd think that it depends more on the wind load than the mass of the ship. An Iowa Class battleship is around 887 ft long and around 30 feet from the waterline to the deck (ignoring everything above the deckline), so that's 26,000 sq ft. Depending on which way the wind is blowing, it seems that it wouldn't take much wind speed to exceed the force a single human can exert.

ggm 8y ago
Oh sure. The point being, there is no huge static resistance in a floating ship, absent other forces. It might take a while, but you can move one with human-scale force. Wind would defeat you for sure. Or current.