Business or governance - an executive or noble may prefer to run their headquarters from a mobile office, visiting sites on other planets on a rotating basis (Medieval nobles and monarchs did this).

Hobby/pursuit - the owner may have some other interest that requires visiting different planets and may prefer to take their home/collection with them. The safari ship could be a modest version of this.

On Thu, 24 Dec 2020 10:31 Jeff Zeitlin, <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 21:41:10 -0500, Jonathan Clark <xxxxxx@att.net>
wrote:

>2) What's the point? AFAICT there are three reasons to be on such a craft:
>
>2A) Habitation

There's also the way certain tax-related laws are written - Someone
who lives on a boat but doesn't own the anchorage (e.g., rents a slot
at a marina) may be able to stay at sea (i.e., outside legal
territorial limits or the Exclusive Economic Zone) or move from
jurisdiction to jurisdiction often enough for specified periods so as
to avoid tax liability in any of those jurisdictions.

>2B) Getaway

Some people may be hermits by nature. If you have the money to do it
in style, this is a pretty good way to ensure that you won't have to
deal with those icky other people except when you want to or need to
(resupply).

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