Kermit: I enjoyed the H260 but my wife only tolerated it. We decided after 5 years of the 260 to get a bigger boat for cruising and for just staying on at Kentucky Lake. We put a Northern Lights generator, Bimini and dodger year round and a full enclosure for 6 months. We use the boat for 9 months a year and about 75 days. We have a KVH antenna with Dish Network and watch all the University of Tennessee football games and other tv. We run the generator continuously when not at the dock and keep the salon at 72 degrees whether heating or cooling. We do not worry about power usage and have computers, IPads and IPhones charging whenever we need it. We watched Alabama and Tennessee play football in the Gulf of Mexico! The 356 has all the amenities and enough space to be comfortable. It doesn't move around like the 260 did when you move about the boat. With the autopilot and the sheets all terminating in the cockpit, it is so much easier to sail than the 260. It is the right boat for us. We took it to Flordia in 2013-14 on a 6 month cruise and spent a little over 50% of that time in the boat. The rest we were back and forth to Tennessee. We could never have done that on our 260 and without the generator and HVAC we were uncomfortable a lot of the time, either hot or cold, and we didn't spend more than one weekend a year on the boat. I know about the 80 year old body thing. I had a heart attack at 52, double bypass, stents a year later, a defibrillator a year after that, and stents again 5 years ago. I handle the 356 with ease! I still think I'm still much younger too, but I know it after a hard day of cleaning!
