It was like living in a toy! I love kids and especially because they provide an excellent excuse to keep playing with toys, dollhouses and playmobiles and watching animation movies, living in a boat is so much fun! You keep admiring the ingenuity of the people who designed the functionality of the living quarters! everything has a perfect place and could not have been built any other way in order to maximize the use of the space. The cabinets, the storage space in the floor, the closets! I could never have imagined that I would be living on a 16 m / 53 ft boat and have so much space. All our cloths are in the closets and in the bedroom cupboards. In the front cabin I actually keep two cupboards empty for our guests and their things. Our scuba diving stuff are in the cupboard under the living room seat. In the floor storage compartments we can fit in almost anything, a big fan, suitcase, bottles of beer, sawing machine etc.
The stove is very cute and can swing with the movement of the boat so you can keep cooking and sail (…maybe sometime in the future…). We have a microwave and a washing machine for our cloths. There used to be a dishwasher installed in the kitchen but the previous owner took it out and we had to adopt “Bobby”, a portable mini dishwasher we put on top of the kitchen fridge. Bobby is my favorite appliance and that’s why he gets to have a name. Second best comes “Midgie” the coffee maker. She is not my favorite because we have to grind the coffee first by hand and then put it in the espresso maker. I adapted to cooking my excellent healthy Greek cuisine meals in the little kitchen very nicely. Very soon I became completely comfortable with everything in all the areas of the boat…except for the “long head bashing trap” of a passageway leading to the back cabin which is our bedroom…
As you come below deck in our boat you find yourself in the living room which is spacious with lots of light and air. The ceiling is high and in the front you have the front toilet and our guest cabin. On your left, it’s the kitchen and on your right…is a passageway next to a bunkbed that leads to the master bedroom cabin in the back and the second toilet. This corridor is notoriously dangerous, the ceiling is low and the space is narrow. We have been banging our heads both entering and exiting this area for at least 3 or 4 months. I tried everything. I put pillows everywhere; signs; lights; nothing worked. The moment you start relaxing a bit, then it’s when you will bang your head again. The only solution is that you move slowly and carefully, which is annoying. Everything you do and everywhere you go in the boat, remember to move slowly so even if you do hurt yourself it will not be life threatening. Because Jeff made it clear that if I brake anything, he’s putting it back in place without anesthesia and I told him that if he ever needs stitches, I’m putting everything together with duct tape because we both hate needles. So in order for both of us to avoid turning out in modern versions of Frankenstein and his Bride after improvised medical assistance to each other, we need to remain safe and healthy!
Adventures on Spruzzo 