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In March 2019, Hallmark continued its Countdown to Summer series with Sailing Into Love, starring Leah Renee and Chris McNally. Encores of the movie still air, including 4 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, April 22. Read on to learn all about the movie, including the cast, where it was filmed, and see photos.
How To Watch ‘Sailing Into Love’
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The synopsis for the movie reads: “Biology teacher Claire is a bridesmaid and conducts a class on Blue Island. Claire takes action when she learns her former boyfriend works for the developer building a resort on Blue Island.”
McNally Learned How to Sail to Play the Boat Captain
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McNally is known for being the man who isn’t in uniform on When Calls the Heart, but for Sailing Into Love, his character wore a uniform and was a boat captain. But McNally had to learn how to sail before he could play the part.
In an interview with Hallmark, he shared: “I think the highlight for me on this project, one of them anyway, was working on the boat and working with the owner of the sailboat. And him teaching us how all the different rig or winches work and ropes and being able to actually sail. That was just an awesome experience. Everyone was so much more calm on the day we’d get the boat it seems, because we’re out there on the ocean and it’s a beautiful day, you know, we had just enough wind…”
‘Sailing Into Love’ Was Filmed in Canada
In an on-location video, McNally and Renee both shared that they were filming in Canada. Although Blue Island isn’t real, the beautiful lighthouse is. It’s in Victoria, British Columbia.
Here are photos from British Columbia and Vancouver during filming, shared by Samantha Kendrick, who is also in the movie.
Here’s a behind-the-scenes video.
Jill Walchuk shared this behind-the-scenes photo while filming in Victoria. She’s also in the movie.
Everyone seemed to have a lot of fun.
The Cast for ‘Sailing Into Love’
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Leah Renee stars as Claire. She has many credits to her name, including A Snow Capped Christmas, Best Thanksgiving Ever, Grimm, Mission Control, Working the Engels, Satisfaction (Maggie for 13 episodes), The Playboy Club (Alice for seven episodes), Blue Mountain State (Kara), Busytown Mysteries (appeared in 12 episodes), MVP (Frances), Growing Up Creepie (nine episodes), Runaway (Amber), Franklin (Beaver for 39 episodes), and more.
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Chris McNally stars as Tom. He’s well known right now for starring as Lucas in When Calls the Heart. He has a pretty impressive credits list before joining the show. His many credits include Altered Carbon (Sergei), The Sweetest Heart, Rocky Mountain Christmas, Freefall, Same Time Next Week, Hearts of Christmas, Lucifer, Falling Skies, Supernatural (Ty/Busboy), Theatrics, Big Boy, Coerced, Another Cinderella Story, and more. Another fun tidbit: McNally loves his dogs.
Also starring in the movie are:
- Fiona Vroom (Christine)
- Garry Garneau (Jason)
- Teagan Vincze (Amber)
- Samantha Kendrick (Bridget)
- Matt Hamilton (First Mate Mick)
- Charlie Nesbitt (Evan)
- Eric Gustafsson (David)
- Derek Green (Councilman Haines)
- Jillian Walchuk (Samantha)
- Kayvon Khoshkam (TJ the DJ)
- Sam Braun (Jack)
- Jennifer Li (Wendy)
- Jarrod Evanyshyn (Mark)
- Fred Keating (Captain Will)
- Ronald Patrick Thompson (Surveyor)
- Tosca Baggoo (Mayor Shoemaker)
- Robbe Hardnette (Minister)
- Andrew Airlie (Joseph)
- Giordana Venturi (Betty)
Here are some more photos from the movie:
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