The boat is back in the water with fresh bottom paint looking good. Now it is time to start the painful process of moving aboard. I say painful not because I'm not looking forward to living on the boat, but because moving is always a pain, and when you try an shoehorn all the trappings of life ashore into a space roughly the size of your closet you need to make some tough choices about what you need and don't need. i'm finding that I am continually asking myself, "how did I end up with all this shit?". Fortunately I have a storage unit to handle some of the overflow, but that has a bunch of crap in it already. I think the plan is, since I have to be out of the apartment by the end of the day tomorrow, to put everything from the apartment into my Chevy trailblazer and gradually move what I need onto the boat over the weekend. This should work since most of the furniture and large items came with the apartment and I've already done several rounds of tossing out/giving away stuff I really don't need. After a few weeks on the boat, I should have a good idea of what I want to keep, and what takes up more space than its worth.
In reality, the Westsail has a tremendous amount of storage space for a 32 foot boat, and the previous owner lived aboard with his wife and 2 kids. I cant imagine where they kept everything, but I guess you learn to live with less stuff, a skill I will be trying to acquire over the next few months.........
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