Tomorrow we officially begin the Great Loop, so I thought this would be a good time to have an “open house” and give you a tour of the inside of our boat. This will be our home sweet home for the foreseeable future.

These are the steps from the middle outside deck leading into the main salon. The doorway to the right of the steps leads to the master cabin which is at the rear of the boat. Do you see the TV on a ceiling mount?

There are three recliners to the left as you come down the steps. The galley ( kitchen) is beyond the recliners. I have a two door fridge/freezer in the galley that holds a surprising amount of food and drinks – we won’t starve or die of dehydration. The door to the right of the fridge goes into the forward/guest cabin.

To the right as you come down the steps is a curved settee with a dining table.

And under the cushions of the settee is my pantry!

We replaced the original 3 burner ceramic cooktop with a two burner induction cooktop. I had tried to boil water for pasta on the old burners and after 45 minutes it still wasn’t even at a simmer. I knew I couldn’t spend a year with a wimpy cooktop so out it came and the induction one went in. Now I can get a pan of water to boil in two minutes!

      

There are lots of hidden storage places on our boat. For example, under the rug in the galley is access to our wine cellar and under that, an access panel to that storage space where I put all those paper towels.

The left side of the guest cabin

The guest head (bathroom). There’s a glass enclosed shower that is being used as storage space for gallon jugs of water and soda. I guess I’ll have to find a space for all of that if we ever have guests who want to use the shower.

The master cabin. The sliders in the upper right corner of the picture open on to the back deck (Rich says what I call the back deck is actually the cockpit, which makes no sense to me. I think a cockpit is at the front, like the cockpit in a plane. Who do you agree with?)

From left to right – bookshelf in a space that used to house an old TV ( note another ceiling mounted TV – it unlatches and the TV flips down) with a cupboard underneath for a clothes hamper, toilet, sink, and separate shower.

As you can see, life isn’t too bad on our boat!