Sorry guys, I am doing something wrong here - was trying to reply to Tykeeing's post. I can't agree with him more if 95% you are happy with it, I think you are doing well. I can really relate to this thread as compromise was the name of the game when we were boat shopping, I am the wife and we were looking at 22 - 25 foot size 3 years ago. Our criteria at the time was it had to be able to get up the incline of our driveway and be parked there - so that ruled out anything larger than 25 feet. A must for him was a big fish deck, and for me I wanted to be able to seat 6 occasionally in the cabin when we had wet weather without anyone having to sit down in a vberth (kids with spouses come with us and grandchildren are on the way), flushable toilet, hardtop, also for the 2 of us to be able to overnight on it. Everything we looked at in that size range was going to work but was never going to be 100% perfect. We ended up settling on a pursuit 2460 denali. It gave him the back deck space and me my seating in the cabin when seating is folded down to a bench seat. So, we just stayed 5 days on it this month at Nootka for the first time - we have only stayed on it 1 night at a time previously. It worked fine, we have a small microwave in the vberth and with a rolled up table I purchased from Cabelas (easy to store in a small space when not using) I was able to prepare all of our meals and we used a camp stove that we made a frame for that sat securely on top of our large marine cooler. One of the things that turned out to work like a hot damn that we didn't think of when we bought this boat is it has a large live well under one of the seats that we now use as a cooler - with block ice on the bottom, covered with a wet towel and then frozen meat on that with another wet towel on top, then veg/fruit/condiments and we then put a piece of foam over that and then all breads, muffins etc. - everything was kept well refrigerated and the meat was still partly frozen 5 days later, with only half the ice melted also the live well drain conveniently drains out any water from the melting ice. So, we just had to take one cooler for cooking supplies and another one for fish. We also have a vinyl back for the boat so that goes on in the evenings and we can sit and just chill out comfortably in lawn chairs on the back deck at night protected from wind and rain. Is it 100% perfect - nope - one of those $300k boats I have no doubt would work better but I am not interested in ever spending that amount of money for a boat - so this works well for us, we are warm, dry, slept comfortably and I was able to cook great meals.....it is all a compromise. Now we are going to spend 5 days this month anchoring out in the Gulf Islands - I too have bought 2 portable shower bags, we have fresh water wash down on the boat so in theory this should work ok to be able to get a shower in daily.