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Micha lost eight SSD drives containing 16 terabytes of unreleased footage — two full sailing seasons — somewhere between his boat and the ferry from Iceland to Denmark.6:33 The lost material covers the Caledonian Canal in Scotland, the Orkney Islands, the Faroe Islands, Jan Mayen, and two seasons along the Greenland coast, including the south coast in 2025.7:47 A search of the boat by a friend via FaceTime found nothing; Micha's own return visit to the boat in winter confirmed the drives are gone.10:59 Starlink allowed him to send roughly 170 photos to Antje during the voyages, but no backup of the full footage existed — 16 terabytes of cloud storage was not financially viable.9:48 The video also covers a 40-knot storm at the marina in Iceland, during which the shore power cable tore loose and the boat heeled hard against seven mooring lines.16:56 Micha describes the prior season's return from Greenland: a seven-day North Atlantic crossing, then ten days storm-bound in Grindavik, arriving at Eskifjordur on Iceland's east coast in late September.8:45 Future plans include hauling the boat and producing new, near-real-time content.12:23 No backup system for large raw footage volumes is a critical vulnerability for solo sailing filmmakers.

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