I don't go as far or as long as you do. I feel my boat is sailing better these years. At 15000 displacement, I've made quite a percentage dent in the weight it has to lug around. That weight is one thing when if I'm living aboard(I doubt I'll do that again), quite another if I can't sail in conditions I know I could if the boat was a little lighter.

Having gone through most of the areas of "stuff" on my boat, it's feeling pretty spare. I like the boat feel I get when I go aboard these days. Lockers are half full(some are empty and ready when needed, that's a luxury for me.) I feel like I've been peeling back my own added layers, and underneath is the original spare sailboat that wasn't designed for living aboard at all.

It's not like my house. No kitchen like I'm sitting at this moment, no lap top to spend a quiet morning hour. No electric coffee pot, no refrigerator, no radio. Stuff that is my house(and I like that, in my house)

This same hour spent on the water, I would make a cup of coffee,(slow process in comparison), maybe pick up the book I was reading the night before while it brews. Then I'll spend this same hour in the cockpit watching the sunlight progress.

Having liberated the chart drawer , I'm taking a hard look at my tools and spares in several boxes. They've found a home on shelves I built into the back of a hanging locker years ago. Convenient, secured behind fiddles, entrenched, they're beginning to bother me,...

Tools are my life at home. But I'm amazed, at how many I have on board, how little I use them, and what they weigh. Plus every time I add something, another toolbox, another clear part container, the whole operation of getting something out-and back in, becomes more tedious and unlike the simple spare boat I so enjoy these days.

Trouble is, I've culled out this "tool" area before. But I've changed since in how I enjoy the boat so I'll spread it out on a couple berths, and see what goes down the ladder(that's a one way trip with me )