Having bought the 50' cruiser stern "Green Knight" in mid August, after replacing 4 previously neglected batteries and installing a smart charger we are now 4 days into being bona fide live aboards.

Lighting the stove has just about been mastered but the real trick now, largely due to the looming freezing nights is to get the thing to stay lit all night long until the morning.

The view from the boat is very different from the view from our old first floor house window across a sprawling housing development and the lifestyle we now have is far richer in terms of freedom of space despite all our contents being condensed into micro storage of needs instead of wants.

Best boat buy so far...Memory foam mattress.

Busiest task... Collecting a winters worth of fire wood