I came back and my boat was gone 

Ties the anchor to rotted rope and buggers off.. Damn lucky to still have a boat and not be sued for damage. Ridiculous.

Wow so you get a free boat, anchor it in a very tight anchorage with ground tackle you know is insufficient and just leave it and the other boats at the mercy of your whim for a couple weeks while you play in Europe? Good job captain.

Hope you didn’t damage anyone else’s boat. Like your videos but that was negligent

Sam, Sam, Sam...I won't be the scolding father because I was young and foolish once, too...still am sometimes. I lived on my boat in the Florida Keys back in the mid-80's, so I know the area where you are and in fact had my own "boat is gone" moment in Key Colony Harbour. It is a sinking feeling when you look out where your boat usually is and it isn't there! I was lucky--a Norther had blown in and my boat had dragged down to the end of the harbour, ending up just 10'-15' away from a seawall! My good-sized Danforth had become one giant ball of mud that broke loose from the bottom. Lesson learned--anchor types matter; have more than one. As a solo, limited-budget sailor, ground tackle IS your #1 insurance policy. 1. You simply MUST find a way to afford at least TWO good anchors. The smaller one could be something easy to handle and lightweight, like a Fortress or Danforth. But make it one size larger than recommended (so get at least a 16 lb. for the Danforth, for example). Make the second one an even heavier S.O.B. and of a different design--either a Bruce, CQR, Delta, Rocna, or whatever. Say, a 10kg Bruce or a 25 lb. CQR--and it wouldn't hurt to go to 35 lbs. It should have its own anchor rode, too. 2. You want to have AT LEAST a boat-length of chain--two would be even better--and I know some veteran sailors who have all-chain rode (I'm not that extreme). For your Bayfield, I would get at least 30' of 5/16" or 3/8" chain. 3. Three-strand nylon is CHEAP and I suggest 200'. Size matters, so go to 1/2". You might be okay with 100' of nylon on your everyday anchor and save the 200' for the heavy anchor--you're only going to use it when it really matters--like when you go away for two weeks! 🙂 I do enjoy your videos, but you narrowly avoided calamity this time and I'd like to see you avoid such close calls in the future so I can keep enjoying them! Oh, one last thing--I suggest you take another dive down under your boat to look things over. You might have grounded when your boat parted from its anchor--I'd look for damage under/along the keel and the bottom and rear edge of the rudder. I've done that, too. Take care, keep living life to the fullest.

I like your videos Sam. You don’t just show the good stuff but when something goes wrong you walk us thru your fix. In this way maybe others can be better prepared. You are a humble guy living the boat life.

One of the reasons I love your channel is your calm, unflappable, roll-with-the-punches attitude when you encounter unexpected difficulties and setbacks. I remember achieving that state occasionally, years ago (before I had kids). It's kind of inspiring to remember that we have the option to not be stressed out when things go wrong.

Great job by Burt of Atlantis. Never heard of him or the outfit but it does a phenomenal community service. Unbidden, the boat is saved, others escape damage or injury. The Coast Guard must love a business that is an effective partner. That's how it seems to work, anyway.

Sam, you might want to use a galvanised thimble when you splice your rope to the anchor chain. That rope on metal connection will wear through in a heartbeat. Put a metal thimble in there and you’ve got a metal on metal connection.

It’s amazing how much energy you have

This is why my boat has 3 different anchors out in Boot Key Harbor when I'm away. It held and maintained during the last hurricane, as we evacuated to the mainland. Of course, the holdings are better down there too. I think you should relocate your boat if you're not going to stay on it all the time or use a mooring.

As someone born and raised in South Florida, I thought she was a goner. So glad you and Carlos were able to find her! And that a stranger found and moored her. Another great video.

Wow sorry about the board. Another awesome video Sam take care of yourself. Always waiting on another Sam Holmes video ❤️👍

Sam's rocking that 80's yacht rock look. Good on ya

“Dude, where’s my boat?” -Sam probably

My wife and I use airtags to keep track of things. It would work well with your boat.

Kudos to Bert for saving the day.

You really woke everyone up with this episode, Sam! 😂😂😂😂

Nordic skiing and paddle boarding in the same episode. That’s living life large. 😎

Glad you got the boat back. It's a bit reckless to leave a boat at anchor for two weeks with an undersized fluke anchor and rope rode. Hope next time you get a mantus or rocna and get more chain. Could've fouled up another person's anchor and scratched up their hull. I live at anchor and would've been a bit upset if I was near you and watched this play out. Love you though.

Such a postive attitude "the search begins" Glad you found the boat !

A nice video and really great that you found the sailboat. Congratulations also in connection with Jessie Higgins, who has just won America's first individual gold medal in a world championship in Nordic cross-country skiing. This is quite an achievement and for a Norwegian who loves cross-country skiing in addition to sailing, this is really nice and fun :)

I love listening to you! Truly!! Does anything rattle you? Thinking about what could've happened in the storm and wind, you did pretty well. Looks like you have a nice trip to Norway, too! Keep on Keeping' on, Sam!

Lol "cruising at a knot and a half, be there in no time" so chill. Glad you got your boat back

Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgement. Keep living Sam you're the man.

i am living in Norway and i much prefer the warmer weather! Glad it turned out ok

Exactly how peewees big adventure started

This is one reason I don’t give to permanent vacationers/RU-vidrs. Take things for granted. A free sailboat; many would appreciate that boat.

Action Packed Video. Glad your boat got saved. Cheers.

Nothing like going for a solo swim while your sails are up

So happy they saved your boat!! Most places don't give a crap an will watch it float away. Much love from the coast of Maine 🤙🤙

I've got lots of good memories cross country skiing on mountain logging trails in northeast Oregon with my family growing up. It's definitely a workout when you're going up hills to the summit first. Good fun.

winch mounted umbrella is brilliant!

Brilllllliant Sam - thanks for sharing 👍

Thanks Sam, you just do you mate👍👍👍

That my friend is a lucky break. But as others say, you're pretty calm so there ya go.

I wish I had lived my life as chilled as you do! Because all that stressful worry about everything just wears a person down and in ones old age is kinda like, "um, that was unnecessary!"

The stache is great! Rock and roll!

man that had me really worried for a bit, i really thought someone stole your boat, that was real nice of that man to take it on himself to tie up your boat an keep er safe

I have been following Sam since he first sailed to Hawaii, then across the Atlantic. Although some of his ‘McGuyvering’ has been adequate, Sam keeps doing stupid s*it, frequent negligence and am still amazed how far this guy has sailed without serious consequences, to himself or others. I had a feeling he would walk out of West Marine with an inadequate anchor and sure enough…!! Because he is such a likable guy I wish him no misfortune. But come on Sam, shape up mate!!

Tracking that headsail through the slot is easier if you leave the staysail backed when tacking. It will help guide the headsail through the gap.

Sam your gold man a real attitude of graduate love it bro ...not a worry in the world and your 100% right

I caught myself breathing in from my nose to smell that jellyfish LOL. Your videos really take you there!

Glad you found the boat. Quite a scare !!

Hi Sam; Eric in Newport, RI here. I work composites and marine systems. I didn't see you build your mast on that foil but what is a common failure would be "bridging" where an excess of resin gets in a corner and while you might think it's strong like that, a resin bridge is actually quite brittle. Hope that helps you out a bit. love the channel. hope to see you on the water.

I'm disappointed in you, buying an anchor, LOL, all you needed was a five gallon bucket filled with cement and some old twine

So happy you got your boat back, I woulda freaked

I hate to chastise you, but... Really like your videos, the adventures you're willing to undertake and your ingenuity in dealing with situations that come up, but what an irresponsible move to leave an anchored boat unattended for a few hours let alone 2 weeks. Glad no one else's boat was damaged.

Great episode...man i would have totally freaked losing my boat!

Really enjoying the journey, like your style

The flow is making a comeback

The foreshadowing is immense

Pretty awesome someone was able to save your boat. I'm a bit disappointed you didn't pull out the drill to fix the foil. I got a fever, and the only cure is more drill

Wow, I can relate to what you just went through. I always had two anchors but one time I dropped just one and for a couple of weeks was checking for line chaffing. I became confident and lax, sure enough one morning I came to the anchorage to find my vessel missing. I was lucky the city owned marina saw my ship and bought it in. They charged me 150$ for “overnight docking”. Lesson learned. I now have my anchor line wrapped and taped in a garden hose where there are chafe points…live and learn. Oh yeah, been to the Dinner Key Mooring…overcrowded, shallow, exposed and the weekend boat traffic is insane…not a good place to drop the hook and the mooring balls are usually not available.

Another Magruber sailing episode, what a life you are having . Skiing and foiling et al.

nice vid Sam. but thought u mite have learned a lesson after losing yr boat b4. that anchor looks about the right size for my 14 foot runabout !!

Nice Portuguese Man of War Really clear shot.

Love the umbrella!

When you get back to Pickled Herring, you should start a trip along the Portuguese spice route, down to Elmina, Luanda, Mozambique, Mombasa, Muscat, Mumbai, Malacca, Singapore, Macao and eventually invade Nagasaki and start the fall of the Shogunate. From there you could reverse the trip and try for the Suez canal, sail it over to Alaska and down to the Panama canal or (my personal favorite) go down through Indonesia and take a picture of it anchored in front of the Sydney Opera House.

Thanks for the great video and you had good luck, the boat could have had more damage! Love from Sweden 🇸🇪❤️✨

love your journeys

Hi . Besides my last comment I love what your at. I'm a sailor & paraglider from Ireland. Keep it you 😊

I wish I could be like you so cool in all these drastic situations in life. Loosing a sailboat! You won't see smile on my face :)

happened to me the same or almost is moored in a marina where there was a lot of apartment complex and someone cut the ropes of my person 28 , looked for it for a whole day after I went to talk the people who opened the bridge to find out if the boat had gone out but only it did not keep the record and finally the other side of the channel the coastguard found my boat stranded on a small beach at the end everything ends well .I really love what you do

Generally very good holding in Biscayne Bay. I anchored through 2 hurricanes at Miami Beach, and broke 6 chain links throwing out anchor at southern most end, traveling a couple knots.

Skiing & boating were cut from the same cloth🥳 thank God for Bert I thought your boat was stolen or sank I've got an 11' inflatable boat like the guy who helped you out getting her geared up for some more crazy adventures on the great lakes, stay safe! 🤪🙏💥🤗👍

More videos my friends. Fan of the channel

Glad you found her. Just received your new shirt in the mail. Rocking Sam Holmes wear

Sam, you are the most calm person I know. You rock!!!!

I'm anchored in the area as well and I heard there is something shady going on with the salvage situation, someone is cutting ropes and then they just happen to salvage your boat for a few thousands, hard to tell if this was your case due to your poor anchor but who knows.. next time have someone keep an eye on your boat

Rockin that seventies look Sam the man

This place is always good for a laugh, for the content and his disciples.

Thanks Sam... Always a pleasure... Let me know if you ever plan on doing the north atlantic crossing...

Hi Sam, much as I have always loved and admired you and your sailing feats from when I first started watching you on your journey to Hawaii all those years ago, this antic of just leaving your boat unsecurely tethered with a dodgy anchor rope (not chain) is not only foolhardy and irresponsible, but could have caused major damage to some other boats in the vicinity. Mate you need a wake up call...and if I wasn't in Australia, I would have come over and given you one. Seriously, your actions are not cool...your couldn't care less attitude is unacceptable. If it wasn't for some kind soul attaching your boat to a mooring ball, you might be in all sorts of shit, and I'm 100% sure you don't have any insurance to pay for any damage your boat might have caused (I know you are the kind of man who would have done the same should it have happened to another sailor), but you seriously need to 'man up' mate and if you knew she wasn't securely anchored, why on earth didn't you buy a proper anchor & chain before your flew to Norway?

I know the feeling of a lost boat. Happened to me in the Caribbean. On a mooring but with strong winds my 3/4” line tore and off she went. Ended up on some rocks with keel damage and rudder damage. Nothing money can’t fix. Bummer!

Tip , never jump of for a swim and leave the boat un manned with sails up....never... anyhow glad you found your boat , when leaving your boat for longer than a day try opt for a mooring and dive to check warp and attachments...Just my 2 cents

Man boat people are some of the coolest people. Of course there's still that one, or maybe two in every crowd.

Dude, that stash is 👍.

Whew! I'm glad you got her back! I hope one day to achieve even 10% of what you have accomplished!

That was an awesome video, a top tenner if not in the top three. Totally thought provoking. An in the moment style modus operandi. The key, the clue, if it bothers you, is in the beginning an early story about doing the math in your appx. 10minute wakeup computations that become befuddled : when you are tired. What a sojourn. Thanks for sharing your humanity. As if life is tumbling from one mistake to the next, that's how we know we are made in the image of god. But then, what about it, getting the second anchor before you left, like you said you were going to. The best of Sam is thanks to his mom he is more comfortable and confident and trusts having fun more than anyone. So much fun, as on the foil flying thing. Hold on to that for as long as you can! The best of courage.

You are so lucky. Glad your boat did not get damaged & did not hit another boat. That would have been very sad.

So surreal to see you in Florida one minute then in snowy nordic mountains the next. That''s the modern world.

Bro I got to give you credit I love watching your videos I always have but you got to have one of the best personalities you would be the only person whose boat is gone and you're excited to go on a search for it I wish I had half of that attitude because mine tends to be the grumpy one who gets in trouble with his wife LOL

Samwich, that’s just like Christian Williams. He uses an umbrella too.

Last famous words…. “Hopefully it doesn’t float away..”

Norway in the summer beautiful

As an earlier follower, this video was one of your best! Sailing, water sports, a trip to Norway w a little skiing mixed in. And a search for your missing boat. You even solved the mystery of who saved it! Great stuff.

Mr. Gel! Conserving energy and focusing on the desired result says everything about your seamanship. You are a captain the entire crew would look up to. Marine needs more like yourself, Sir.

Sam you should use 2 anchors in the keys because the bottom is mud and sand. 1 danforth and 1 plow set them out in V. If one fails the other on will hold. Or pay for mooring if you are leaving...

Glad you got your boat back without damage to yours or anyone else’s. I’m sure one of your viewers would have watched your boat if you had asked. You’ve got a lot of followers. Pretty sure someone would have helped you out.

Sam - drill out your hydrofoil and board, run a hardwood dowl in the holes. Then use your epoxy and glass. If you just epoxy and glass it, there will probably be too much stress on the repaired joint to stay intact.

Hey Bro, I’m a new subscriber. Loved this episode (Norway was cool) keep ‘em coming much health and luck. 👍🏻⛵️⛵️⛵️

That putty is good stuff,, overturned my trailer put a 3 inch hole in my aluminum boat. Patched it with that putty. Went ocean fishing. Good stuff

Someone took care of your boat, the US is a great country.

The pleasures of boat ownership. Not a bad idea having at least two anchors onboard AND using them.

From the days of sailing a unsafe Hobie Cat to the present, still using subpar equipment and having that, "what could go wrong" attitude. Stay tuned folks disaster is just around the next corner! A modern day, Alfred E. Newman.

Relying on luck alone with a glass half full attitude must be a wonderful way to view life but if this had resulted in his boat nailing my boat affecting my extremely limited budget and ending my sailing career as well as my dreams thereof would have been a tad tragic. For me at least.

Good shot of that Portuguese Man O War!

A big plough anchor is a good investment. For a storm anchor I have a 60 lb which I would use if leaving my 24 footer for any length of time. As for Danforths I had one drag and retired it.

I love the water in general, swimming, body boarding and I can't find a surfboard I like & can afford a little pricey.

I'm not sure if you can find it there, but try get pratley putty, its from South Africa, and it even hardens underwater. It's really awesome stuff and I have even used it to plug holes in an engine block and drove 500km's with it like that to get home so I could fix it properly. I seem to recall they once used it to repair the golden gate bridge and they took it with on Apollo missions because you can mold it into any shape you need. I also used to use it to make prototype parts for things before 3D printing came along.