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32 Days Alone at Sea
April 22, 2026 · 26 min · 62K views · Pacific Ocean
What this video covers
Huub, a Dutch sailor, completes a 32-day solo Pacific crossing from Panama to the Marquesas Islands on his 38-foot catamaran.Watch The passage averages just over 125 miles per day in the final 10 days, with a best day of 131 miles.21:47 Sail management dominates the trip: Huub repeatedly weighs the speed gain of flying a light sail at night against squall risk, gets caught once by a 35-knot squall while the light sail is up, and resolves to reef conservatively after that.11:41 A mainsail slider breaks mid-passage — the plastic housing separates from the metal pin — and he repairs it underway by trimming the loose plastic and applying lithium grease.4:37 A boom component also fails on day 30 but carries no load, so he leaves it for post-arrival repair.22:40 The autopilot steers more reliably on jib alone than on mainsail alone in heavy downwind conditions.16:44 A faulty fire alarm wakes him at 4 a.m. during an already rough night of alternating 20-knot wind and 30–35-knot squalls.17:23 He notes that on a catamaran, unlike a monohull, wind increases don't heel the boat enough to wake a sleeping sailor — making night-watch discipline more critical.12:48 He arrives and anchors at the Marquesas after 32 days.26:42
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