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A catamaran sailing from Bundaberg to Mackay, Australia, experiences a series of equipment failures during a two-stage coastal passage.Watch During the first overnight leg to Great Keppel Island, the autopilot fails at midnight, forcing the crew to hand-steer for the remainder of the night.9:09 On the subsequent 24-hour leg to Mackay, the autopilot fails again, the alternator belt snaps, and the laptop power supply malfunctions, causing a loss of navigation data.13:34 The crew maintains battery power by running a portable generator in the cockpit.13:48 Upon arrival at Mackay Marina, 25-knot winds and a 6-meter tide complicate the docking process, resulting in a minor collision with a neighboring vessel.15:25 The crew also performs maintenance in Bundaberg, including installing a new watermaker and replacing mainsail batten cars.0:20 The autopilot unit is later found to have suffered an internal electrical burnout.19:38

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