so here's the view of our home for two weeks at sea, a Beneteau 473 called Siderno -- I'm sitting on the companionway steps looking forward, and this was actually taken before we loaded all the groceries and etc. on board.
she's very pretty inside, and would be great if you were living aboard or sitting in a harbor for long stretches -- but for an upwind voyage, when the boat is heeled over to one side or another almost all the time, this boat has an absolutely terrible design -- there are no handholds in this huge salon, and a lot of space to cross... also little things like having a side-opening fridge (although a top-opening freezer) -- so any time we opened the fridge on starboard tack (our entire first week), everything would fall out on top of you -- and the stove had three burners, but only a single wire potholder, and no lip around the edge, so we couldn't use more than one burner at a time unless the boat was sailing flat, otherwise the pots woudl fall off. AND the water intakes for the heads were located toward the outside of the hull, rather than close to centerline, so that one one tack or the other, the intake would be out of the water and the toilets wouldn't function. thank goodness there were two and on opposite sides of the boat!
so -- I learned to not love the boat at all (for other reasons as well as interior design) -- but she did look nice at the start!
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