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Norwegian sailor Mara (Helga Marie Løvenskjold Kveset) has entered the Golden Globe Race, a solo nonstop circumnavigation starting 6 September 2026 from France, lasting an estimated seven to nine months.▶ 11:31 The race restricts competitors to technology available in 1968 — no GPS, no autopilot, no chartplotter, no wind instruments; navigation is by sextant only.▶ 21:53 Mara's boat is currently in Gibraltar being prepared; she bought it unprepared, and the previous owner, a boatbuilder, is helping ready it.▶ 9:32 Her qualification requirement is 4,000 solo nautical miles in the same boat: she plans to sail from Morocco via the Canary Islands and Cape Verde to the Caribbean, solo and nonstop if possible, with a live Starlink stream on YouTube for the entire Atlantic crossing.▶ 12:21 She will then sail back to England to collect a second Hydrovane self-steering unit, then base in Les Sables-d'Olonne, where her sailmaker is located, for final preparation.▶ 14:34 Mara spent the previous four years circumnavigating with the Sailing Ripple Effect project, delivering humanitarian supplies and rotating crew.▶ 6:44 She has never sailed solo for more than two weeks and acknowledges managing decisions entirely alone will be the sharpest psychological challenge.▶ 15:22

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