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212.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 6.5K upvotes, which works out to 31 per 1,000 members.

31peak upvotes per 1,000 members
212.3Kmembers
6.5Kbest post
752most comments
401posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

25% 22% 20% 17% 9%
Image 25% Text 22% Gallery 20% Video 17% Question 9% Link 6%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

US Coast Guard jumps onto a runaway boat and safely stops it in Maryland.

↑ 6.5K 💬 387 video 2026

My uncle decided he wasn’t retired anymore so he built this…

↑ 2.2K 💬 215 gallery 2025

Parents bought a lake house… this is the dock.

↑ 2.2K 💬 582 gallery 2025

But I distinctly asked the salesman, “Do they sink often?” To which the salesman said, “Usually just once.”

↑ 2K 💬 280 video 2026

Lake Powell Boat Ramp Line July 5, 2026

↑ 1.7K 💬 486 video 2026

I was on a boat that sank 25 miles offshore this weekend.

↑ 1.7K 💬 444 gallery 2025

We finished America’s Great Loop!

↑ 1.5K 💬 231 gallery 2024

I gambled my $500 bonus building my own boat…

↑ 1.4K 💬 127 gallery 2025

Is this poor handling or simply under-powered?

↑ 1.3K 💬 655 image 2026

Saw our new Ranger Tug yesterday at the Seattle Boat Show. We get the boat in 3 weeks. So excited.

↑ 1.2K 💬 174 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/boating, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/boating have?
r/boating has about 212.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 401 of its posts; the biggest reached 6.5K upvotes, which is 31 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/boating?
"US Coast Guard jumps onto a runaway boat and safely stops it in Maryland." reached 6.5K upvotes and 387 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/boating.
What subreddits are similar to r/boating?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/boating?
Of the posts we hold, 25% are image posts and 22% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/boating?
Across 401 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 01:00 UTC (954 avg upvotes), Monday at 21:00 UTC (684 avg upvotes), Monday at 11:00 UTC (669 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/boating?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/boating has 1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 45 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/boating, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.