The fundamentals of managing a crew on a long passage: watch rotation, sleep, preparation, and keeping the record. Everything here assumes you're leaving the coastal waters behind.
How to organize the crew for a long passage — the classic schedules, the Swedish system, doublehanded rotation, and how to run a proper watch handover.
Managing fatigue offshore — sleep cycles, bunk selection, noise management, motion sickness medications, and the arrival problem after a long passage.
Safety gear, navigation, engine, rigging, provisioning, and crew briefing — the systematic verification that everything will actually work offshore.
How and why to keep a proper passage record — the legal value of an accurate log, what to record, electronic vs. paper, and the noon position sight.