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Starlink Mini on sailboat — 2026 field installation and performance

Starlink Mini changed everything for sailboats in 2025-2026: 25-50 W power draw, 100-200 Mbps at sea, 30-50 ms latency, 30-second deployment. We have installed it for 18 months at the Skysat workshop. Here is what works, what doesn’t, the 3 workshop installation layouts, the rigging masking pitfall, and the honest verdict vs Standard Gen 3 and Flat HP.