[sailnaway]

Well I have a few words to say on this matter. Think of drawers stuffed with sweaters you will not wear and shelves full of trinkets your wife collected from grandma and all the junk you like to play with. Golf clubs, hiking boots, stereo equipment,any hobby will take allot of room on a boat along with all the clothes you only wear only sometimes. Then you have everyday living at the dock it is a fair thing to say it is easy.But slip the lines and it changes real quick things get stowed and it becomes piles of stuff that you can''t seem to find the item you were looking for because you have to much stuff.Get rid of it as much stuff as you can sell it at a garage sale and make room for the things you will need. You will find your collection of junk will grow again and you will be wanting to give it away to any taker.We have been shopping boats for the better part of a year and have come up with a down scaled plan.We have down sized to as small as 38'' and as larg as 41'' this is a range we feel is cheep to maintain YA RIGHT! but still big enough to live on for as long as we need to. Gulf star 41'' traditional aft cockpit boats have caught our eye and on the bottom end a Catalina 38 because they have a beam and are easy to manage at the dock and under sail. the Junk we are selling is a biggie we have a small storage space 10X15''for things we have to keep some of it is not things we can get rid of like Grandmas clock from 1866 things like that. Our kids are old enough now for us to pass some of it on to them and that is what we are doing with some of it.But the lockers full of clothes blankets ect become problems because they collect moisture and if not aired out well you can guess what will happen.My hobbies change to fishing and diving,surfing (54)years old still ride a wave or two, when I live aboard it just fits in. The Morgan has some real room but sails real slow so again you have to trade off someplace.