Sailing and Cruising Creators 2026 Annapolis Sailboat Show Edition

The Sailing and Cruising YouTube Awards Season 2 Episode 1 No voting and no politicking. Just data. These awards show who you, the viewer, are actually watching and who the rest of us are watching too. Every number comes from the Sailing Creator Analytics dashboard, a custom app that tracks sailing YouTube daily. Only the last year counts. To place in the top three, a channel had to be active in sailing, cruising or boat DIY, because fixing boats is cruising. Clubs and racing groups are in the dataset but aren’t eligible to win. How it works Subscriber count puts a channel in its category. Views this year rank it within that category. Each category counts down 3, 2, 1. The day we pulled the data New views in the last 24 hours: 3,395,352 Average new views per channel in the last 24 hours: 2,769 Daily average new views over the last 7 days: 2,311,405 New view growth in the last 24 hours: 69.9% New subscribers in the last 24 hours: 1,142 Active channels: 1,226 Under 1K subscribers: “Are We Aground or Floating” (600 channels) Honorable Mention: Sailing Reboot @RebootTheCatamaran with 418K lifetime views and no new videos this year 3. Sailing Vessel Soletude @Svsoletude , 66K views 2. Floating Adventure @floatingadventure 93K views 1. Szymonidas Sailing @SzymonidasSailing , 121K views 1K to 10K subscribers: “No Longer Aground” (342 channels) Honorable Mention: Sailing Limosa @ProjectLimosa had the most views in this category. They were all Shorts, riding on one Ultra Marine anchor video with 17 million views. 3. Sailing SV Cordelia @SailingSVCordelia , 361K views 2. Small Sailboat Cruising @SmallSailboatCruising 440K views 1. Satis on Trip @sailingsatisfaction , 644K views 10K to 100K subscribers: “This Might Be a Thing” (229 channels) Honorable Mention: Sailing Banana Pancakes @SailingBananaPancakes with 44% subscriber growth and one of the fastest growing channel in this genre on YouTube 3. Sailing Dawn Hunters @DawnHunters 3 million views 2. Sailing Zola @SailingZola 3.2 million views 1. Sailing Dark Angel @SailingDarkAngel 3.4 million views 100K to 500K subscribers: “We’re Getting Somewhere” (48 channels) 3. Sailing KALLI @Sailing_KALLI almost 8 million views 2. Sailing Parlay Revival @ParlayRevival 9 million views 1. Be The Captain @BeTheCaptain formerly Sailing Zingaro, 18 million views 500K to 1M subscribers: “We’ve Made It” (5 channels) 3. Sampson Boat Co @SampsonBoatCo just over 16 million views 2. Expedition Evans @ExpeditionEvans 18.5 million views 1. Sailing Doodles @Sailingdoodles just over 27 million views and the most views of any channel in the dataset this year Over 1M subscribers: “The Big Dogs” (2 channels) 2. Sailing SV Delos @svdelos 14 million views, and they passed 1 million subscribers just weeks ago 1. Sailing La Vagabonde @SailingLaVagabonde 24 million views. We were ready to count them out, and then Riley set off on a passage of several thousand miles. With half a billion lifetime views, they’re the most subscribed channel in the dataset. Who did we miss? Tell us in the comments. #sailing #cruising #sailingyoutube #liveaboard #sailboat