People often ask what we do at night on long passages like this. Do we stop for the night and anchor (or drift)? Do we set the autohelm and sleep? Do we have someone up at all hours of the night driving?
The last guess is the correct one. We take rotating three hour watches that overlap an hour on both ends (e.g. Paul comes on at 1:00a to join me for the last hour of my watch; at 2:00a he has an hour by himself; at 3:00a Ray joins him for the last hour, etc.). The result is that at least one person is on watch at all times.
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