We just chartered the 444 for a week. It's a great party platform with plenty of room. The front cockpit is pretty nice as is the saloon and the rear cockpit.

The mainsheet system could use an extra winch so you can ease one sheet and trim the other. It was slow to adjust using a winch and clutch. The power winch was great to raise the main.

I hated that the boat needed about 150 degrees from one tack to the next. After a few attempts to go upwind, we gave up and motorsailed. The boat really showed well on the beam reach to Anegada where fair winds and following seas had us surfing at 10 knots.

So a spacious charter boat but not a sailor's boat, IMHO.