Sam- 24 year old viewer here- I got interested in sailing because of your videos- on Sunday I am hopefully buying my first sailboat and hoping to live your life one day. Thank you!
Always remember it’s going to get worse before it gets worse lol. Rough seas make a good sailor. Don’t quit and come from failures with wisdom and experience, not defeat. I’ve been sailing for 25 years and learn something new every season. Fair winds and following seas.
This is truly the craziest sailing channel, just insane adventures behind Sam's endless smiles and positivity. Truly the Mr. Beast of sailing. Should have more views. Stay safe out there.
I did slowly become addicted to your channel, and as a formally trained welder, mechanic, and cabinetmaker, I did cringe at some of your repairs. Somehow, the Lord has always blessed you on those vast expanses of the oceans, and it is because you merit that kind of love. I hold the deepest respect for a shoestring sailor, which is what you are. You are not one in a million. You are one in ten million. You make do with what you have at hand, just like the Tahitians, and read the waves. You are such an interesting man. You took the other path, though for that passing there, had worn them really about the same. And that has made all the difference.
Thanks for the shout out Sam! Hope you enjoy the book, Sparrow is all fixed up and just waiting for a weather window for a rip out to Bermuda. All the best
Just a quick FYI on anyone unfamiliar with the clearance under a bridge. The chart (i.e. a sailor’s map) always notes the high-water clearance under a “span”- at low tide you’ll obviously have more). Navionics notes this as well Vertical Clearance 40ft.
Another great Sam Holmes Sailing Update. Looking forward to seeing you back on Pickle again even if it is a real mess after the last few months. Thanks for sharing.
I have done *exactly* that, where the antenna scrapped the two girders of a rail bridge. I was not as calm as you were when it was happening. I was sailing a 42” Yamaha.
Great video Sam! Yes, those flats down and around the Keys are notorious for shifting sands and you can never be too sure how high they are. Beautiful video here!
Been with you since Hawaii Sam. Still can't click on your videos fast enough whenever I see them post. Keep living the dream Sailor Sam and stay safe out there!!
Antenna scrapes the bridge..... Sam : "ho ho! ...That was awesome" Good Lord ! 🤣😅🤪 Luv ya man...but yer missing a couple fragments of your DNA chain...😅🤪 A wake from a 12 foot Whailer woulda made a difference... 😅 I gotta get those fragments removed! Your sunny disposition is legendary. Good luck in all you do. !
@@samholmessailing you’re the best! Love your videos!! I have a Rosborough 246 and trailer it to different places. I live in Ky and have done the Erie Canal, 1000 islands, ohio river, Tennessee River. Chesapeake bay, St. John river. Maine…. Love exploring! Thanks for being an inspiration! Going to do the north channel and Georgian bay all of July.
@@jessicabollinger6289 I bought a boat in the North Channel in September on the hard and can't wait to get it wet in June. We'll be discovering the channel all summer, too.
Thanks for sharing, do you not tie a leash around your leg to the boat when you go off like that in case a strong wind came in and your boat took off? I would.. Anytime in the water swimming I would do that..
We sail the Columbia River. Up here we have a saying, there are 2 types of sailors, those who have run aground and those who just bought their boat. Looks like the gulf can be the same. Actually I was raised in Fort Walton Beach, going up the sound can be the same way. I learned to prefer retractabe keels very young in life. Great video Sam.
Hi Sam, I came across your youtube channel about a month ago. With great inspiration, I watched all your videos, which brought me back to my unfulfilled childhood dreams. Well done man keep up the good work. I saw you were making plans for the Mediterranean. Do you intend to visit the Black Sea and Bulgaria (my country)?
We sailed south from St. Pete to Key Largo a few days after you. The red tide was brutal until we got to Ft Meyers. We went south under the Sanibel Bridge about 200 am Monday morning, as best as I can tell not that many hours before you came in the other direction. Even at night, you could tell there were so many dead fish by the terrible smell. That and we could feel them bouncing off the amas of our little Hobie trimaran. The next night we had the best sail in a long time in NW 15-18 knots between Chokoloskee and Cape Sable under a full moon. Long 10 knot surfs were not uncommon.
Broad reach autopilot issue might be sail stalled & unstalled. It's like a moment switch, moment/no moment, electrical "magnetic" autopilots have no algorithm. Relative wind autopilots will keep the sails on one side of the moment switch.
"Nooooo! Umbrella." I heard that before when Tom Hanks lost Wilson. She was nice, sorry Sam. I've been using a 90% sunshade that gardeners use to shade their plants, It's working our awesome and it's super durable. It covers the whole cockpit.
Ugh! Went to the beach once when I lived in FL with the kids. Within 30 minutes we were all choking and coughing bc of the red tide. Found out about it once we got home.
I’m from key west and my friends and I loved content keys bc they are so natural and not very busy or tourist area… ur brave or too risky gotta watch out for those lines and underneath bridges gets a lot of people in bad trouble… also really gotta watch the depth … saw many boats totally run up on ground lol bc they didn’t pay attention to tides…
A kicking strap/boom vang may prevent the leach hooking up on a spreader when gybing by keeping the boom mor ehorozontal, it will also keep the loads lower down and reduce any heeling moments if gybing in a stiff breeze. I Hate to sound professorial here, but if any of those trivial incidents (main traveler and/or leach foul which fortunately occurred in light airs) had happened in a seaway in 20 plus.....they do not necessarily have such happy endings as fried sausages and onions, which looked great by the way 🙂....sorry....my kids say I go on and on...fair winds!
Cleaning off that tiny propeller would've been....too much work? Didn't have the time? You start passages without repairing obvious boat problems, bilge issues, your silly yellow umbrella, (which will definitely end up at the bottom somewhere) etc. A few weeks back you left your boat anchored in a crowded area. It floated away in a storm and someone had to take care of it for you, hopefully before it damaged other people's boats, nice boats that they paid money for, that you couldn't care less about. Some people adore your happy go lucky attitude, but so many things you've done either caused you to have to be rescued or almost caused you to have to be rescued. The Hobie 16 that you went offshore with. You're so lucky that pile of junk made it after you overloaded it badly, didn't know how to use the rudders, you cut out huge pieces of the hulls to make leaky storage areas...the cutouts are exactly where Hobie 16 hulls fail. Your attitude might be attractive to people who have never been out in, or rescued people in the unforgiving ocean during a storm. Others might think it's funny. But at some point soon you're going to have a totally avoidable problem caused by you preferring to kite surf rather than adult stuff like fixing your boat, and you'll need to be rescued. I hope you come out okay. I hope the rescuers make it home safe. And I hope it scares the shit out of you and your happy go lucky personality. Ignorant trolls will write "oh you're just jealous" or whatever, which can't be further from the truth. I went from a subscriber who liked you and your videos, to a guy who sees that you're just a threat to all of us regular boaters, everywhere you go. Be more careful.
And yet here you still are. Why? I'm 67 and am reliving my life watching this young guy. You do you, let the rest of us live life. If you were paying attention you'd know the reason his boat drifted was he was in a mooring field and the rope parted. The reason he was 'rescued' was because a guy who respected him wanted to help him, as I'm sure 99% of the rest of us would have. Remember to put on your helmet and wear your seatbelt.
Meh, tide shmide. Who cares. Free boat, screw it. And subs apparently like his happy go lucky attitude. Looking forward to him having to be rescued, it's coming soon.
Good to hear you sold the boat and a 3D printer episode is on the way! Hope you have fun in Europe this summer, it's worth a trip up to the mountains in France/Switzerland/Italy - Cable car rides up to the Matterhorn, might be able to nab some late season skiing....
@@mobilixone1575 Trockener Steg and Shwartzsee station on the Klein Matterhorn, now the highest in Europe take you to the Hornli hut and then to the base of the main climbing route.
SAM! CADIZ!!! I noticed from your prospective Europe route that you don't stop in Cadiz!?! You really should as it is a unique destination. The oldest city in Europe, great sailing history (Franco's Drake), a marina and amazing food and people too. Please please please stop there! 😊
Sam- 24 year old viewer here- I got interested in sailing because of your videos- on Sunday I am hopefully buying my first sailboat and hoping to live your life one day. Thank you!
Good luck, man!
Try finding someone with experience so that you can learn the ropes. Good luck and respect the sea.
Always remember it’s going to get worse before it gets worse lol. Rough seas make a good sailor. Don’t quit and come from failures with wisdom and experience, not defeat. I’ve been sailing for 25 years and learn something new every season.
Fair winds and following seas.
Best of luck!
24 is a good age to do exactly that. Bon Voyage
Best sailing channel
This is truly the craziest sailing channel, just insane adventures behind Sam's endless smiles and positivity. Truly the Mr. Beast of sailing. Should have more views. Stay safe out there.
I did slowly become addicted to your channel, and as a formally trained welder, mechanic, and cabinetmaker, I did cringe at some of your repairs. Somehow, the Lord has always blessed you on those vast expanses of the oceans, and it is because you merit that kind of love. I hold the deepest respect for a shoestring sailor, which is what you are. You are not one in a million. You are one in ten million. You make do with what you have at hand, just like the Tahitians, and read the waves. You are such an interesting man. You took the other path, though for that passing there, had worn them really about the same. And that has made all the difference.
Thanks for the shout out Sam! Hope you enjoy the book, Sparrow is all fixed up and just waiting for a weather window for a rip out to Bermuda. All the best
I met Sam recently. He's exactly the same guy in person as on the videos. Wonderful guy.
Gee what a surprise
Breaks my heart to see those abandoned sailboats. They were someone's dream!
“There is nothing I can’t fix!” Sam, I love your attitude!
Just a quick FYI on anyone unfamiliar with the clearance under a bridge. The chart (i.e. a sailor’s map) always notes the high-water clearance under a “span”- at low tide you’ll obviously have more). Navionics notes this as well Vertical Clearance 40ft.
“I know I can fix anything!!” I love the confidence ❤❤❤
Your channel gives so much hope that all you really need is the ability to sail safely. Money is nice but sailing is essential. Thanks
I always expect the unexpected when a new video pops up and you don’t disappoint . Thanks Sam .
Yes, Fort Myers Beach to see Grams!
Cant wait to see you back with Pickle
6:02 - "...but there is nothing I cannot fix - guess I'll fix me some lunch!!" -
Sam, you're crackin' me up today.
I had to replay that. Yup classic Sam jokes and style. Great stuff, so chill.
Another great Sam Holmes Sailing Update. Looking forward to seeing you back on Pickle again even if it is a real mess after the last few months. Thanks for sharing.
Absolutely love your videos. I’m 19 looking at cape dorys to restore. Your an inspiration for many!
Thanks Sam for all the sailing and exploring videos, always a joy to watch!
3:22 - antenna 'tickles' the underside of the bridge - but no one is really laughing... well, except for the Skipper.
YES
The skipper needed some content on his free boat.
Thanks for taking time to make your videos. I don't have a boat. I look forward to each new video.
Sad to see the Bayfield 29 go! Hope the new owners enjoy it!
it really was a great sailing boat. I think they will!
Ooo man that bridge scrape was close as it gets. Thanks for the video
Yes it was
The Bayfield 29 is an awesome boat. Happy for the new owners but honestly wishing it was mine. 😊 Great video as always 👍🏻😎
That’s a close shave with that bridge brother! Nice
Thanks Sam!
Always love a Sam Homes sailing video. this one was also great. I am not so sure about that Moustache though
Like it! Looks like Asterix, the real hero of the Roman Empire😅
Peace love and harmony to all from Devon/cornwall border in the UK. Anyone in the area want to get out sailing on my yacht give me a shout...
I have done *exactly* that, where the antenna scrapped the two girders of a rail bridge. I was not as calm as you were when it was happening. I was sailing a 42” Yamaha.
Great video Sam! Yes, those flats down and around the Keys are notorious for shifting sands and you can never be too sure how high they are. Beautiful video here!
17:40 - cool, a 20-lb flashlight!! Just what you always wanted.
Been with you since Hawaii Sam. Still can't click on your videos fast enough whenever I see them post. Keep living the dream Sailor Sam and stay safe out there!!
I appreciate that!
Thanks for another great episode and thanks, too, for letting us know about your plans for your upcoming season with Pickled Herring!
Love the sailing ! If overfishing isn’t enough , it’s sad to see all the dead fish from agricultural fertilisers running off to our dying oceans !
Right on Sam !
Yay!! Can't wait for those Mediterranean videos! Thanks
They got a pepper bar! Lol. Thought I was the only one that remembered that commercial!
it runs through my head on a daily basis
Sam the man
Antenna scrapes the bridge.....
Sam : "ho ho! ...That was awesome"
Good Lord ! 🤣😅🤪
Luv ya man...but yer missing a couple fragments of your DNA chain...😅🤪
A wake from a 12 foot Whailer woulda
made a difference... 😅
I gotta get those fragments removed!
Your sunny disposition is legendary.
Good luck in all you do. !
Sam is 😊!
Great channel, Sammy!! I wish you the best with everything
Thank you! You too!
@@samholmessailing you’re the best! Love your videos!! I have a Rosborough 246 and trailer it to different places. I live in Ky and have done the Erie Canal, 1000 islands, ohio river, Tennessee River. Chesapeake bay, St. John river. Maine…. Love exploring! Thanks for being an inspiration! Going to do the north channel and Georgian bay all of July.
@@jessicabollinger6289 I bought a boat in the North Channel in September on the hard and can't wait to get it wet in June. We'll be discovering the channel all summer, too.
Sammy ?
That yellow umbrella looked so hilarious and awesome!
Thanks for sharing, do you not tie a leash around your leg to the boat when you go off like that in case a strong wind came in and your boat took off? I would.. Anytime in the water swimming I would do that..
Thank you for the ride!
Haha ! I thought the yellow umbrella was some makeshift sail you made to give a little boost😂
We sail the Columbia River. Up here we have a saying, there are 2 types of sailors, those who have run aground and those who just bought their boat. Looks like the gulf can be the same.
Actually I was raised in Fort Walton Beach, going up the sound can be the same way. I learned to prefer retractabe keels very young in life.
Great video Sam.
True. And the same goes for kissing bridges with your vhf antenna
Which is an argument for ketches
where in Amsterdam is your boat docking. maybe you want to do a canalcruise on my "grachtenboot" on the canals in Amsterdam
Durgerdam. you bet. I'll be back in a week samholmessailing@gmail.com
Hi Sam, I came across your youtube channel about a month ago. With great inspiration, I watched all your videos, which brought me back to my unfulfilled childhood dreams. Well done man keep up the good work. I saw you were making plans for the Mediterranean. Do you intend to visit the Black Sea and Bulgaria (my country)?
5:21 - great shot - if this were a race you'd be in front by 2 feet...
with a leg up on the competition!!
I’m loving the moustache Sam
I liked the new boat.
We sailed south from St. Pete to Key Largo a few days after you. The red tide was brutal until we got to Ft Meyers. We went south under the Sanibel Bridge about 200 am Monday morning, as best as I can tell not that many hours before you came in the other direction. Even at night, you could tell there were so many dead fish by the terrible smell. That and we could feel them bouncing off the amas of our little Hobie trimaran. The next night we had the best sail in a long time in NW 15-18 knots between Chokoloskee and Cape Sable under a full moon. Long 10 knot surfs were not uncommon.
Hey, I saw a bunch of free boats in the bushes. 🙂 They looked like fixer uppers.
I was really hoping you'd sail it across to Europe. Looking forward to your return to Pickled Herring.
Can’t wait to see the med!
Thanks!
"then i started yawning i guess" made me lol
Broad reach autopilot issue might be sail stalled & unstalled. It's like a moment switch, moment/no moment, electrical "magnetic" autopilots have no algorithm. Relative wind autopilots will keep the sails on one side of the moment switch.
"Nooooo! Umbrella." I heard that before when Tom Hanks lost Wilson.
She was nice, sorry Sam. I've been using a 90% sunshade that gardeners use to shade their plants, It's working our awesome and it's super durable. It covers the whole cockpit.
I'm up here in Clearwater ready to head further north. Have a safe journey back to Pickle herring!
THAT WAS A FAST SALE! LOL
Ugh! Went to the beach once when I lived in FL with the kids. Within 30 minutes we were all choking and coughing bc of the red tide. Found out about it once we got home.
I’m from key west and my friends and I loved content keys bc they are so natural and not very busy or tourist area… ur brave or too risky gotta watch out for those lines and underneath bridges gets a lot of people in bad trouble… also really gotta watch the depth … saw many boats totally run up on ground lol bc they didn’t pay attention to tides…
Red Tide is a killer
Living the dream!
Another great sail
love from a 55 year old gepekelde haring from the top of holland
Get yourself a 120 ltr short board. You'll love it!!
Keep it up
Hi Sam. Have you ever sailed to any of Georgetown SC, Myrtle Beach SC, or Southport NC?
Sam, rockin the 70s mou
The mustache and hair combo is looking… alright alright alright!
I had a chat with Jerome a bit ago. Awesome guy. Also got his book, not started yet though, saving it for my first passage!
heck yeah I was so glad to meet him too
Mediterranean Sea. You should cruise the Mediterranean Sea. So much to see. So many countries to visit. Beautiful waters…
A kicking strap/boom vang may prevent the leach hooking up on a spreader when gybing by keeping the boom mor ehorozontal, it will also keep the loads lower down and reduce any heeling moments if gybing in a stiff breeze. I Hate to sound professorial here, but if any of those trivial incidents (main traveler and/or leach foul which fortunately occurred in light airs) had happened in a seaway in 20 plus.....they do not necessarily have such happy endings as fried sausages and onions, which looked great by the way 🙂....sorry....my kids say I go on and on...fair winds!
FYI. Use the measure feature on your iPhone camera to check mast and bridge height
Cleaning off that tiny propeller would've been....too much work? Didn't have the time? You start passages without repairing obvious boat problems, bilge issues, your silly yellow umbrella, (which will definitely end up at the bottom somewhere) etc. A few weeks back you left your boat anchored in a crowded area. It floated away in a storm and someone had to take care of it for you, hopefully before it damaged other people's boats, nice boats that they paid money for, that you couldn't care less about. Some people adore your happy go lucky attitude, but so many things you've done either caused you to have to be rescued or almost caused you to have to be rescued. The Hobie 16 that you went offshore with. You're so lucky that pile of junk made it after you overloaded it badly, didn't know how to use the rudders, you cut out huge pieces of the hulls to make leaky storage areas...the cutouts are exactly where Hobie 16 hulls fail. Your attitude might be attractive to people who have never been out in, or rescued people in the unforgiving ocean during a storm. Others might think it's funny. But at some point soon you're going to have a totally avoidable problem caused by you preferring to kite surf rather than adult stuff like fixing your boat, and you'll need to be rescued. I hope you come out okay. I hope the rescuers make it home safe. And I hope it scares the shit out of you and your happy go lucky personality. Ignorant trolls will write "oh you're just jealous" or whatever, which can't be further from the truth. I went from a subscriber who liked you and your videos, to a guy who sees that you're just a threat to all of us regular boaters, everywhere you go. Be more careful.
And yet here you still are. Why? I'm 67 and am reliving my life watching this young guy. You do you, let the rest of us live life. If you were paying attention you'd know the reason his boat drifted was he was in a mooring field and the rope parted. The reason he was 'rescued' was because a guy who respected him wanted to help him, as I'm sure 99% of the rest of us would have. Remember to put on your helmet and wear your seatbelt.
Nice trip Sam
Dude..... totally serious here. You can rock the best mullet fu Manchu combo ever.
Rock those handles a little lower 😀
Then lose a couple of teeth...
Did you know if it was an incoming tide or out going tide? That can make the difference when attempting to go under a bridge with the mast up.
Meh, tide shmide. Who cares. Free boat, screw it. And subs apparently like his happy go lucky attitude. Looking forward to him having to be rescued, it's coming soon.
4:49 oh god he's sailed into the alternate universe where blimps never stopped being popular.
Shaggy sailor mouse 🐭🐁 taache long hair freaky people
Old 60s lyrics iirc
But still at it
Peace be wit u
I think you should sail to Venice
Pickled Herring yay
Hey Sam! dat wind noise is kinda annoying. I hope you can get a noise filter for the audios. cheers!
so looking forward to the Mediterranean videos
+1 on the moustache!
Ahhhh dude! I was on LGI last week man!
That water looks so shallow how far does you keel extend?
Good to hear you sold the boat and a 3D printer episode is on the way! Hope you have fun in Europe this summer, it's worth a trip up to the mountains in France/Switzerland/Italy - Cable car rides up to the Matterhorn, might be able to nab some late season skiing....
Going to bring the paragliders 🪂
@@samholmessailing Some people look like they have a blast combining the two sports!
There is no such thing as a cable car up to the Matterhorn. You‘d have to climb it yourself🥹
@@mobilixone1575 Trockener Steg and Shwartzsee station on the Klein Matterhorn, now the highest in Europe take you to the Hornli hut and then to the base of the main climbing route.
@@georgemacdonald8899 Quite a different location, though a confusing resemblence of names. I just came back from skiing off the „Little“ Matterhorn!
Ft. Meyers come for the grey water!
That place looks so cool but also so locked in. Good thing you can just jump on a boat and escape if you lived there.
How much are you asking for your boat?
SAM! CADIZ!!! I noticed from your prospective Europe route that you don't stop in Cadiz!?! You really should as it is a unique destination. The oldest city in Europe, great sailing history (Franco's Drake), a marina and amazing food and people too. Please please please stop there! 😊
And wicked good kite beach nearby!
Noted. thanks for the recommendation
Hi Sam Love your hat What make is it and where can you buy it. Great videos been following you in Europe.
Fare winds and following sea's Sam🤙🏼🫶🏼👍🏼😊
The homage to the great Quiznos commercial. You deserve a beer sir 🍻
We love the subs!!! cus they are good to us
Cudjoe Key at the 4:50 mark - that's "Fat Albert," the aerostat.
I’m buying a boat a Sailboat in June. I’m excited to do what you’re doing!
Good choice!
What’s going on with your North Carolina workshop?
Dude! I work 10 minutes from Durham, live in Caswell County.
Hey neighbor!
What is thst weather routing app you're using?