I've been sailing most of my life - lived on a boat in Key Largo for over ten years and sailed the Caribbean, to Bermuda, the Azores, etc. When on the open ocean at night, someone always has to stand watch, steer the boat, and so on.

The watch between midnight and four AM is called "the dog watch" and I always volunteered for it, so other crew members began calling me "the dog" or just "dog."

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