If you ever make the change to go to LFP then make sure your whole system is one brand. My whole system is Victron and that is for a reason…………it is made to work together, it is almost plug and play, which makes installation so much easier. Yes you can go with all kinds of knock of brands, but in the end you will pay much more. Nobody knows how to install it, it will fail if installed improperly and the cheap Chinese LFP batteries are cheap for a reason, the quality is usually pretty poor. How did I save money on the Victron (bought it at half price). I went to the biggest distributor of Victron which is CombiNoord in the Netherlands. Bought it through their website (bootmania.nl), so I had wholesale prices and then had it shipped to Turkey (arranged that myself), so no need to pay VAT.

As for the anchor, I fully agree. It is not about the Rocna, Delta or CQR, anchoring is all about compensating the wind- and current forces with your chain and anchor. So having a heavier anchor than advertised and a heavier chain is going to do much more for you than any type of anchor. The people who claim that you should always have a Rocna probably don't know how to anchor properly and therefore they totally rely on the holding power of the anchor. And in reality you should basically rely on the weight of your chain. I have explained that on different channels where people also say that you need a certain type of anchor.

Another correction are the electronic throttles. I have them on my current boat and I have never had any failure in the almost 6 years that we have this boat. We live on our boat, just like you, so we depend on them as well. Usually failures occur when people have been installing it themselves or they have had them installed by people who had no clue what they were doing. If they are installed properly they will function fine.

Not installing a watermaker was indeed a huge mistake, but also have to say that charging 15.500 euro for one is a complete rip off. If you have not decided which brand to use give this company a call, I have one of their watermakers onboard, you can install it yourself. This is their website https://www.watermaker.de/en/ and as a tip, don't go for the 12 V version, take the 220 V version, it will work much better. Only negative part is that you will need a lot of power to run the watermaker, so that 1500 W of solar is not really going to cut it. And that means drawing it from your battery or from the generator. I have 3.2 Kwp of solar onboard and only in absolute perfect conditions can I run the watermaker completely off the solar. Most of the times however it will also draw from the batteries, but since I have a large LiFePO4 bank I can do that without a problem. So you will need to manage your water very well and need to have a discipline to make water every day for 1 or max 2 hours. That way you will top off your tanks, don't drain the batteries and save the life of your membranes.
But when you then also want to install a washing machine you are slowly getting up to the power hungry boat that we have and that will ensure your batteries won't be able to handle it. Our washing machine is a Candy Aquamatic, which also has a short program and does not use too much water nor electricity. On top of that……..they don't break the bank and this brand is widely used in the Med.
We also have a small dish washer, which actually saves water (max 8 ltr for washing all your dishes instead of keeping the tab open all the time).
Next thing we did was install a lot of led ights all around our boat, not for making the boat look beautiful, but to make it visibel at night, so that others will see us in an anchorage. So many boats have no lights at all (not even an anchor light) and for anyone coming in at night that is a huge risk. We light up like a christmas tree, but at least everyone can see us, nobody will slam into us at night, that gives not only peace of mind, it will also save you a ton of money when damage occurs.

A decision we took just 2 years ago was to get rid of our 15 Hp Honda outboard. Yes it is nice to be able to race everywhere, but it also means you will need to carry a lot of flammable gasoline onboard and most islands (at least in the Med) don't have a fuel station right next to the waterfront. So that meant carrying jerrycans in the heat of the day.
We sold that Honda and went for a Mercury Avator 7.5. It has a 1 Kw battery, which we can charge through our solar panels. You still have quite a good range, but obviously you cannot wake board behind it. And if we are too far from a city………then we will just drop closer for the day, see the city and then move to a different anchorage, but that may have happened only once or twice.
A benefit from having an electric outboard is that they don't make noise and don't get stolen so easily. Without the battery or the charger they are completely useless to anyone. The total weight, incl battery, is not even 25 kg and without the battery it weighs around 17 kg, easy to carry.

What is our biggest regret ?

Not buying a bigger boat 😀
Storage is always going to be a problem since you carry a lot of provisions, spareparts, maintenance stuff and tools, and at a certain time, especially when you have guests, you will be sleeping in a storage room. If we are alone onboard we use the guest cabin as storage, but as soon as someone gets onboard we need to empty that room and that then comes in our cabin.
Another regret ?
Having a boat with way too much stainless steel and teak. Teak is a nightmare in the Med, gets way too hot, you can't walk on it when it is in the sun and the maintenance is quite extensive. Same goes for stainless steel. You will keep polishing and polishing, your whole life, not my idea of fun.

I would never go back to electronic controls, constant problems that once failed in the middle of a parade. This was during my dark years on a power boat. Since coming back to sail, I would never switch out the standard controls.