How we are adjusting to life onboard our sailboat - Part 1: Space #11

WE ARE TAKING YOUR QUESTIONS!!! Ask us anything you’ve ever wondered about deciding to quit our jobs to go on a sailing adventure with no prior experience of boats or sailing, how it is to live as a sailing nomad, or anything related to boat life in general.

I’ll make a video to answer one question at a time. I’ve already received some questions about seasickness, sleep, and even beauty routines…. This will be SO fun, and I’m really looking forward to get started on those topics. 

This week, we are adjusting to living onboard our sailboat, which is the exact reason why this episode comes so late. As we are adjusting, we find ourselves stretched when it comes to time, and are learning to slow down.

Already when we moved in on the boat, I largely overestimated Polar Seal’s storage space.

I packed in several bags my entire wardrobe, happily thinking that I would make it work. I did not make it work, and took half of my wardrobe back to the locker where we keep the stuff that we cannot take with us on the boat.

Ryan was sewing behind me, as I was trying to record this episode, and I ended up kicking him out of the boat so that I could work. Right? I needed SPACE. That one thing that we don’t really have anymore…

Or do we? Polar Seal is a Beneteau Oceanis 40, which stands for 40 foot long (12 meters). That’s not even that small of a sailboat, as a lot of cruisers who do the same thing we do live on much smaller boats, down to 32 or 28 foot and sometimes without shower, refrigeration or flushing toilet.

I admire people able to live that simply, I don’t think I could do it myself.

I give a little tour of our boat, and a “before/after” of our living condition. Our living room has shrunk, but looks nice. Our kitchen has been replaced by a “galley”, which is VERY SMALL. I have to crawl on the floor to get anything out of the fridge, the oven or the kitchen cabinets.
My enormous former walk-in closet and the bedroom are probably the two spaces that have shrunken the most. Gosh I miss that walk in closet… Our bedroom is now a cabin, whose ceiling is very low, but the bed is comfy.
The space itself isn’t bad at all, onboard our Oceanis 40 from 2007. The real challenge is: proximity.

Private space is a rare commodity onboard, and added to the fact that we are still adjusting, makes for some explosive moments between Ryan and I.

As we set sails from Rønne in Bornholm to Kiel in German, our departure is delayed by an argument that we work out before leaving.

We cheer up, and leave Denmark under a beautiful sun.

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