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| Aboard ships, time is divided into watches. Zheng He's ships ran 10 watches of 2.4 hours each, which made up one day and night. The length of a watch was measured by burning an incense stick. This was looked after by the incense keeper (ssu hsiang) whose duty was to make sure that the incense never ceased to burn. | On Precious Dragon we run a system where each one of the five crew stands a watch of 4 hours. To make sure that there are always two people on deck we work a simple but effective method of 4 hours on, 6 hours off. See below how it worked on the leg from Singapore to Melaka: |
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watch system runs until we make fast our mooring line or drop the anchor.During each watch, not only do we steer the ship and navigate, we also do all the other duties necessary to run the ship, such as preparing the meals, doing washing up, general cleaning - and most importantly maintaining the sails and rigging. As you can imagine - there's always plenty to do, we never get bored ;-) If you want to know more about how we run Precious Dragon please email me at nikki@dragonvoyage.com Nikki
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| 08:00 - 10:00 | Steve | Magnus | |
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Rex | Steve | |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Kevin | Rex | |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Nikki | Kevin | |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Magnus | Nikki | |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Steve | Magnus | |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | Rex | Steve | |
| 22:00 - 00:00 | Kevin | Rex | |
| 00:00 - 02:00 | Nikki | Kevin | |
| 02:00 - 04:00 | Magnus | Nikki | |
| 04:00 - 06:00 | Steve | Magnus | |
| 06:00 - 08:00 | Rex | Steve | |
| 08:00 - 10:00 | Kevin | Rex |
| E-mail Rex
Warner rex
@ dragonvoyage.com Magnus Ström (exBerglund) magnus
@ dragonvoyage.com. Last Updated 31/12/10 Ship communications |
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