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Mara from the middle of the Atlantic: One million have watched the stream / Peiling på Seiling
14 mars 2026 · 28 min · 2K vues · midt i Atlanterhavet
Woman smiles inside wooden sailing cabin with charts
Ce que couvre cette vidéo
Mara, a solo sailor three weeks into her first-ever solo offshore passage, speaks from mid-Atlantic — roughly 2,500 nautical miles from Morocco and still about 14 days from St. Martin in the Caribbean.1:35 The crossing is a qualifying sail for the Golden Globe Race, requiring 4,000 non-stop nautical miles in the same boat she plans to race; her plotted route, including a waypoint south of the rhumb line, will produce almost exactly 4,000 miles.6:09 She left Morocco on 18 February after a month-long delay in Gibraltar caused by a rigger who ghosted her and a recurring engine fault traced to a glow plug staying permanently energized.5:11 Boat preparation during the delay included new sails, an upgraded electrical system, and a Starlink-based livestream that has drawn over one million viewers on YouTube.7:16 She describes sleep management in the shipping lanes — starting with five-minute rest intervals and extending to roughly two-hour stretches once traffic thinned — and using AIS alarms alongside phone alarms.14:09 Wind has run mostly 16–23 knots with occasional 40-knot gusts at night; no rain.18:22 After arriving in St. Martin she plans about a week of boatwork before sailing back toward France, aiming to arrive by 1 June.21:29 She confirms her September Golden Globe Race start, despite mid-passage doubts that resolved once she turned west.26:05
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