The layout utilises all sorts of idea we've liked in other boats we've been on.
The first decision was to go for a "trad" stern - the big cruiser-style back deck on the original Felis Catus showed us just how cold winter boating can get.
We're particularly attached to a C-shaped galley, so that the cook doesn't impede other people's passage through the boat.
Side-hatches, especially in the galley, are, for us, an essential.