Out of the seven day trip, we spent slightly more than four days sailing up and back. The skipper was happy to leave all the sailing to us, as we requested. If you do the math, it obviously works out to six hours a day at the helm for each of us. That's quite a bit of enviable experience in learning the feel of such a large boat in what was often rather uneven and disagreeable seas.
It was also very cold on the North Sea in November.
