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Sam Holmes Sailing

@samholmessailing · The channel on YouTube

Travel

In short

On YouTube, Sam Holmes Sailing has 286,000 subscribers and 46,743,088 views in all, as of November 11, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 1,000 subscribers and 96,105 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "Sailing 650nm Offshore to the Pacific Island Nation of Palau", with 55,646 views. By YouTube subscribers it is No. 4,094 of the 5,393 channels on Trari, and No. 71 of 112 in category "Travel".

YouTube: The numbers today

subscribers

286,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days
▲ 1,000 in the last 30 days

total views

46,743,088

▲ 96,105 in the last 7 days
▲ 347,022 in the last 30 days

views a day (current pace)

4,175

on a typical day: 11,296

Videos on the channel

442

2 uploaded in the last 30 days

Last upload

8 days ago

November 3, 2026

Views per subscriber

163

a new long video usually gets 66,787 views

Next milestone

500,000 subscribers

214,000 subscribers to go

YouTube: What happened lately

This week on the channel +96K views this week

Sam Holmes sails to Palau with gnocchi on the menu

Anneliese turns stored potatoes into dinner during a passage that ends with jungle walks and wreck diving.

Channel: Sam Holmes Sailing · Story of November 9, 2026

This week on the channel +76K views this week

Sam Holmes gets just a day at dream destination Wayag

A rough passage to Raja Ampat becomes an island-and-reef visit before the journey continues toward Waigeo and Sorong.

Channel: Sam Holmes Sailing · Story of October 10, 2026

The video drawing the most views now

Sailing 650nm Offshore to the Pacific Island Nation of Palau

Video published: November 3, 2026
Video views so far: 55,646
Video views, pace per day: 1,698
Views on its first day: 26,209

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YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category

	Among all channels on Trari	In the category Travel
By subscribers	4,094 of 5,393	71 of 112
By views gained this week	4,605 of 5,274	83 of 107
By views gained in the last 30 days	4,570 of 5,043	86 of 104

The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.

The channel's share of the category: 0.1% of all views the category's channels gained this week
Subscriber growth this week: 0.4% on this channel, 0.0% on the category's middle channel

Subscribers in the category Travel

14,000,000

10,200,000

8,180,000

4,550,000

4,550,000

4,310,000

4,200,000

3,430,000

3,290,000

2,600,000

2,280,000

2,280,000

2,100,000

14Rick Steves' Europe

2,090,000

71Sam Holmes Sailing

286,000

Views gained this week in the category Travel

1Tyler Morgan - Japan Ad…

27,014,085

17,782,230

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6,027,302

7New Jersey Outdoor Adve…

5,168,503

4,106,940

3,375,850

3,219,772

2,847,154

2,416,573

2,394,908

2,312,151

96,105

YouTube: Subscribers, last 30 days

October 13, 2026: 285,000 subscribers → November 11, 2026: 286,000 subscribers

YouTube: Total views, last 30 days

October 13, 2026: 46,408,588 views → November 11, 2026: 46,743,088 views · average: 11,534 views a day

YouTube: The channel's latest videos

The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views	Per day	First day	Likes	Comments
Sailing 650nm Offshore to the Pacific Island Nation of Palau	November 3, 2026	1:00:36	55,646	1,698	26,209	1,907	169
Catamaran vs monohull after 1.5yrs on catamaran	October 24, 2026	56:12	44,106	67	23,933	1,598	196
Hundreds of miles of rough sailing only to be turned away f…	October 9, 2026	1:07:27	115,384	267	-	3,467	268
Making big miles offshore sailing through Indonesia	September 29, 2026	25:13	99,693	81	-	3,644	177
Orca sighting! we repair one daggerboard only to break anot…	September 14, 2026	41:09	85,369	60	-	3,278	256
Sailing to Maratua, a rarely visited Indonesian island	September 5, 2026	22:54	101,365	73	-	3,590	147
We hit a log sailing by strange Indonesian sea platforms	August 29, 2026	30:23	127,286	30	-	3,768	290
Replacing a window while sailing through pirate waters and …	August 23, 2026	19:37	45,611	12	-	3,222	111
Sailing to Semporna and the most Garbage I’ve ever seen in …	August 17, 2026	23:53	55,792	24	-	2,459	124
Kota Kinabalu Bound: Sailing, Survivor Island, Squalls, and…	July 31, 2026	27:23	50,250	12	-	2,982	103
Sailing to Brunei, an unusual country	July 15, 2026	16:59	60,509	22	-	3,589	177
Kuching to Miri	July 7, 2026	37:37	66,787	29	-	3,690	171
Becalmed & our engines keep breaking on 7 day passage to Bo…	June 30, 2026	32:30	99,420	40	-	4,593	241
Indonesia's Most Remote Archipelago	June 19, 2026	40:56	78,662	76	-	3,407	221
The Exce1sior 3.3m carbon fiber dinghy	June 8, 2026	14:42	60,455	16	-	2,545	206

Audience engagement

likes per 1,000 views: 41.6 in the category: 23.9
comments per 1,000 views: 2.5 in the category: 1.3
short vs long: 0 short (up to 3 minutes), 15 long
average views per long video: 76,422

YouTube: Most watched videos (not Shorts)

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
Solo sailing Los Angeles to Hawaii on 23ft boat	July 17, 2019	39:45	5,450,689
23 days alone across the Atlantic in a small boat	July 13, 2021	40:54	4,056,041
Alone across the Atlantic pt 2	July 16, 2021	45:21	1,519,819
11 days Solo Sailing to Ireland - Those whales got close!	August 30, 2021	45:38	1,281,516
17 days alone at sea on a 28ft boat.	January 1, 2025	57:06	902,122

YouTube: Most watched Shorts

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
How I make the best soda water on my boat	October 28, 2023	0:52	151,964

Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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