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WE DID IT! We Crossed The Pacific Ocean! 🌊
June 25, 2026 · 17 min · 133K views · Marquesas Islands
Fishing from sailboat as tender floats beside open ocean
What this video covers
Zatara completes a roughly 28-day Pacific crossing, arriving in the Marquesas after departing from the Galápagos with a crew of content creators that includes Keith, Renee, Kate, and Remy.16:59 The final 24–36 hours feature repeated squalls, and Keith describes the decision process for keeping an asymmetrical spinnaker up through 24-knot squall gusts while running dead downwind with 260 miles to go — a calculated risk of blowing the sail against the reward of making landfall.1:57 Sleep deprivation is the crew's dominant complaint across the passage: night watches, mid-sleep sail drops, and a dwindling food supply reduced to pasta and improvised tortilla meals by the end.5:10 A skipjack or blackfin tuna is landed on the approach to the Marquesas.14:25 Keith reflects that a captain's mood sets the crew's mood — a lesson he names as the primary thing he has learned since taking command.11:04 Remy concludes the passage has confirmed that extended liveaboard life is not for him.9:37 Luke Bosworth notes this is his second ocean crossing after the Atlantic.10:38 The crew anchors in the Marquesas after 16–17 consecutive days at sea from the Galápagos.16:59
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