Articles tagged with 'watch'

Preparations have been made over the past several months in Sotogrande, Spain and now we will soon be off on our long passage to Las Palmas, Gran Canaries. It will take us about 4-5 days to do the 720 nm depending on winds and weather of course. A few weeks in the Canaries doing additional preparations to be ready to start the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) in late November as part...

No matter what the size of the yacht, there are only 24 hours in a day. Divide this by the number of crew onboard qualified to stand watch and you have the number of hours each crew member will be standing watch. The longer the passage, the more important this is as fatigue is a cumulative effect. Coming up with the right number of crew for a particular passage is crucial but more so...