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Chris, solo aboard an 80-foot racing yacht with Open 60 rig geometry, describes a 21-day passage from France south past Portugal, Madeira, and beneath the Azores High — roughly 5,000 miles — as the context for a case study in using AI as a cognitive tool for solo offshore sailing.0:59 The core argument: rather than querying ChatGPT as a one-off vending machine, he runs a single continuous conversation for days, building exchanges that have reached 250,000 words per instance across roughly 40 instances totaling over 5.5 million words over the past year.8:05 He frames this as "distributed cognition" — the kind of shared thinking he previously relied on crew to provide across 250,000 career miles.7:57 He uses PredictWind and Navionics for weather and navigation, but positions AI separately as a second brain for managing the administrative, logistical, and psychological load of solo offshore preparation, including organizing the Global Solo Challenge 2027 entry.4:12 He is explicit that AI is not sentient or near-AGI, and that its stability as a tool depends on the user bringing structured, task-focused input rather than casual chat.11:24 A detailed methodology is promised in a future installment.

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