A HUGE consideration in my book for liveaboards and long distance cruisers is enough room to live and stay organized through repairs and upgrades. Having a boat you can still move around on and live, eat/sleep/shower/etc...while the engine room is being disassembled is a great feature.
That feature is usually only on larger boats. Smaller boats may pack as much into a smaller hull... but it's done by cramming stuff into smaller spaces that need to be opened and stuff laid out all around when working...which is a PIA for the other occupants that still need to go about their business.
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