When you consider the watches are only 1 hour long, it is light duty
watchkeeping.


OzOne wrote:
Who told you that?
Helming is in one hour stints.
Can you tell me how you'd organise rest periods with one hour watches?


1 hour watches would be crazy.

But I also think that 1 hour is too long on the helm. IMHO 20 to 30
minutes is about the most time anyone can really work hard at helming.

It may be that the 1 hour stints on the wheel are to keep the races more
even, so that no one boat can gain an advantage by having one particular
better helmsman.

DSK