Rainbow’s End Watch Bill

Two in the morning, mid-race. The helm is due off at 02:00, and the next lookout is asleep, because nobody told them it was their turn. Rainbow's End Watch Bill plans the crew's watches, tells the person on deck who to wake and when, and records each handover. The plan reaches every crew phone as a code on the skipper's screen, so nothing needs a signal at sea. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT — Each person aboard carries their own watches, with an alarm before each one, on the free Watch Bill Crew app. They scan the plan from your screen, and their phone shows a code you scan back. That is how you know whose phone has the latest version and whose does not. The app keeps a phone that scanned it apart from a person you briefed face to face, and tells you to wake the second by hand. We built it aboard our ketch Rainbow, for overnight races and offshore passages. THE ROTATION — The rolling watch with a…