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Holly Martin of the Wind Hippie Sailing channel describes her solo circumnavigation aboard Gecko, a 1981 Grind 27 Danish-built double-ender, in a conversation with James recorded in New Zealand.1:40 Martin bought the 27-foot boat in New England after breaking her arm mountain biking in the Philippines, then spent ten months refitting it — redoing the rig, adding spreaders, replacing all wiring, and rebuilding the cabin in epoxy-coated pine — before departing Maine in 2018 with $2,000.2:32 She grew up aboard with parents who sailed to Antarctica and Newfoundland, where the boat was squeezed by ice thick enough to walk on; a documentary called Ice Blink covers that childhood.7:40 The conversation covers her Pacific crossing: two weeks fighting headwinds and the Humboldt current to clear the Galapagos, 32 hours hand-steering with a broken tiller pilot through the doldrums, and a 40-day passage to the Marquesas.23:40 She details her solo watch schedule — waking every 40 minutes, checking course on an iPad, staying in a half-sleep state to remain sensitive to boat motion.26:18 The pair also discuss hallucinations of children's voices on long passages, loneliness patterns (anchorages, not open ocean), YouTube and Patreon as funding models, and her upcoming solo passage from New Zealand to Vanuatu, roughly 1,100 miles.30:55

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