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Starlink Mini on sailboat — 2026 field installation and performance

The Starlink Mini has changed everything for sailboats in 2025-2026: 25-50 W power draw, 100-200 Mbps at sea, 30-50 ms latency, deployment in under 30 seconds. We have been installing it at the Skysat workshop for 18 months. 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.