title: Sam Holmes (sailor)
text: # Sam Holmes (sailor)
  
  Sam Holmes is a YouTuber and solo sailor best known for his YouTube channel Sam Holmes Sailing. Holmes has numerous sailing feats which have been documented on his YouTube channel including sailing from California to Hawaii in a Ranger 23 sailboat, crossing the Atlantic to Europe in his Cape Dory 28. Holmes created some controversy while sailing in Svalbard. During his trip when he brought his boat up to a glacier at sea to get ice, turned his AIS off while underway, and hiking without a rifle despite warnings about polar bears in the area.
  
  