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Nova Loman, a solo sailor with her dog Neno, departs Nynäshamn after a month of final preparations and two years sailing the Baltic, heading south with no fixed destination.0:04 The emotional farewell — family on the pontoon at Nynäshamn — was too private to film; she describes persistent headwinds as the normal summer condition for southbound sailing in the Baltic.1:17 She stops the first night in a small archipelago near Oxelösund, anchoring well inside a bird sanctuary boundary to give Neno room to run ashore.6:54 Dense fog the following morning pins her down for a full day — she describes how Baltic fog can arrive fast and thick — and she waits until a 7 a.m. forecast clearance before navigating out through tight shoals and submerged breakers via a shortcut that saves roughly an hour of motoring.8:21 Underway again, she notes the Baltic's characteristic short, steep chop: half a meter to a meter of swell at a three-second interval.18:49 She uses a tiller pilot close to shore, switching to a wind vane once clear of traffic.2:59 She anchors in a sheltered bay in a nature reserve, anchor holding well, and keeps Neno on a lead per reserve rules.21:25 She plans to sail easy the first week and not push for speed.15:46

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