I just want to echo the comments above about the temperature. It will be unbearable living on board during most parts of the year.
It's 11:28am when I am currently making this post, and the outside ambient (admittedly 7kms inland and not coastal) is 114deg F!!!!! Don't know how practical it will be to kit out your boat with AC.
By the way, if you are starting training with EK in August, don't they imediately give you acccommodation or an allowance for the same? What will you start`training as?
Good Luck with it anyway.
A300Man