LesTP

How do the night watch/day watch work? If there are two people on the boat, does that mean a person is on a watch for 12 hours, sleeping for 8, and has 4 hours a day for everything else? Or is it only the night watch that has to be done and during the day you just hang out on the deck and that works as a watch? What if the weather is bad?

Oh... I thought of bad weather as the time when everyone's indoors... I guess it's the other way around for the sailors :) How often did the storms happen? And how long do they usually last? I realize it is probably a range, but give an estimate.