Here is a picture of Ville, steering by compass. When the spinnaker is up we have to steer very carefully to keep it flying. By the way, we have *no* idea who was steering at the time of the rip, so you should not infer anything from this photo (nor from this disclaimer).
About our watches: We had originally intended to have a complicated system, with longer watches during the day, and shorter watches at night, and with individual crewmember rotation, but we have settled on a very simple plan instead: We have two watch teams (Andrew and Daniel, Ville and Paul). Formal watches begin at 9:00PM, run for four hours, and end at 9:00AM. this means that there are three watches, so, for example last night Andrew and Daniel started at 9:00PM and came off at 1:00AM. Then, Ville and Paul stood wach from 1:00AM to 5:00AM. Andrew and Daniel then were on from 5:00AM until 9:00AM. Tonight, Ville and Paul have the early and late watches, and Andrew and Daniel have the middle watch.
We have discovered that hand-steering under spinnaker is tiring, so during our watch we will trade-off the steering job every hour. The other on-watch crewmember will help with sail trim as necessary.
During the day, we trade off the chores informally, but Paul is responsible for the radio communications and weather file download. Usually Paul and Daniel confer to decide on the weather/course strategy.
-Paul