Hi Giles; Here you have the classic problem: Small, trailerable, low cost, but with limitations - no head room As the boat gets bigger, costs of purchase rise; equipment costs rise; maintenance costs rise; it is no longer really trailerable (trailerable in name only) requiring a marina or a mooring - costs?; - but you get standing head room; a galley; a head; a water tank; and inboard engine.............. That's the trade off.............. Decisions, decisions. After years of comfortable - elegant cruising - we had fitted porcelain plates / cups and saucers in the boat, and we had good wine glasses; with refrigeration; hi-fi / cassettes; we got tired of the growing mobs inhabiting our old haunts. This is what lead us to go trailerable and down size till we reached the M15. An optimum solution to fun; and Scott demonstrates that one can live aboard for weeks at a time; but it is a better form of camping. Connie