The billionaire who owns the vessel must be at the helm for forward progress to count. When they leave the wheel or tiller — to sleep, to eat, to use the head, to contemplate their mortality — the boat must stop or heave-to. The clock keeps running. But the boat cannot make forward progress while the owner is not at the helm.

Navigation, sail trim, maintenance, cooking, weather routing — crew handles all of it. They're not passengers. They're the support system. But the owner must physically steer the vessel with their own hands. Autopilot does not count. Electronic steering assist does not count. Your hands on the wheel or the tiller, or the boat stops.

The clock runs continuously from start to finish. If you need to sleep, the boat stops. If you can micro-nap at the helm, that's between you and your insurance company. CG does not endorse sleep deprivation. CG does note that the billionaires who built these companies regularly brag about working 100-hour weeks.

Complete the course and you donate $25,000 to CG's charity fund. That's the entry fee for proving you can actually sail what you bought. The bounty escalates: second billionaire to finish the same route donates $50K. Third: $75K. The price of admission rises because the bragging rights are worth more once someone else has done it first. You can afford it.

GPS tracking required for the entire passage. CG will provide tracking equipment or accept WSSRC-standard instrumentation. Onboard camera documenting the helm station is strongly encouraged — partly for verification, partly because the footage of a billionaire hand-steering through the Gulf Stream at 3 AM is content that writes itself.