Ep 40 Season 3 Challenges and Highlights- Season 4 teaser
November 1, 2025 · 22 min · 719 views
Sailboat docked at marina with city skyline behind
What this video covers
Erin and Marie wrap up Season 3 aboard Northern Breeze, a Baltic Yachts 42 DP, after sailing through 14 countries across the Baltic Sea and returning home to Canada.
The Baltic offered no tides, minimal current, and low salinity — conditions they compare to the Great Lakes — but short, square waves punished the boat in shallow water.6:01 Anchoring proved difficult throughout: granite seabeds in the Finnish and Swedish archipelagos gave no holding, and hundreds of miles of beach in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Germany remain off-limits because NATO mine-sweeping operations are still active; 11 mines were pulled that season.3:52 Mooring without finger docks required climbing the bow repeatedly to secure lines.2:24 A broken turnbuckle in Finland sent them hunting for rigging parts, with help from the crew of a Baltic 43 in Hanko who had won the Hanko-to-Gotland race six times.8:42 A mouse boarded the boat the first day temperatures hit 20°C.17:46 For Schengen compliance, they transited most countries without checking in, treating the passage as a transit leg from Sweden to the UK.13:52 Season 4 will head south toward Gibraltar, using the UK as a non-Schengen base at each end of the season to preserve sailing days within the zone.20:10
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