Well said, CD, and it's why we're looking at large boats for our family. Even little things can drive you batty. We keep our shore power bags under our Nav station, so when I'm sitting at the station my legs are often in the path from the galley to the settee. It drives my wife NUTS that she has to push past me constantly to get through. After looking through boats this past weekend, we've really realized how big a boat we actually have to get so that we're comfortable as an entire family - kids and all. That's actually a reason why we're preferring a center cockpit... room between the aft cabin and the forward cabins
Back to Denise's original comment, several of the boats we've looked at over the past 2 years were from quickly aborted cruises. As a family, we've never experienced an offshore cruise and many people tell us that it's a necessity before we go out for a couple of years. Time won't permit, so I'm hopeful we won't become one of the aborted cruise statistics