| It's alll a question of size...innit?!
One empathises with yacht captains who, because their yachts do not have a sufficient number of crew berths or, because noone aboard can organise the available crew for an efficient anchor watch or, because of other crew restraints (ie. cost), the notion of having an all-night anchor watch becomes an unobtainable luxury.
The cost of employing an extra crew member easily fades into insignificance, when comparing the annual / seasonal costs against annual costs and indeed, the total value of the yacht (and her pax / crew). The bigger the yacht, the more easily it is to accommodate all-night anchor-watches of course.
The big joke is that, whatever insurance requirements might be, the average 100ft / $10m yacht just doesn't have the space or crew to allow for really efficient watch-keeping, whether it's for extended cruising or all-night anchor watches...
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