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Starlink Mini on sailboat — 2026 field installation and performance

The Starlink Mini has flipped 2025-2026 toward the democratization of satcom for pleasure sailboats: 25-50 W power draw, 100-200 Mbps at sea, 30-50 ms latency, 30-second deployment. We have been installing it at the Skysat workshop for 18 months. Here is what works, what doesn’t, the three workshop installation layouts, the rigging masking pitfall, and the honest verdict vs Standard Gen 3 and Flat HP.