#Riley and elyana on the sail boat professional
“I enjoy having a creative or professional incentive to keep my mind busy, active and sharp.” Being a YouTuber provided that discipline, while allowing her creative side to flourish. Photo: Kristi Wilsonįor Tasha the motivation for turning to film-making was not simply to fund their cruising lifestyle: Tasha and Ryan Hacker fund their cruising lifestyle aboard Cheeky Monkey with work in creative media. Or you could work freelance to pay the bills. Are you a teacher, a translator, a business coach, a designer or illustrator? Those skills can be marketed. Perhaps some of your knowledge or work skills could be transferrable to an onboard life. Patreon’s high earning ideas range from craft videos to a daily newsletter inspired by the Bible, and a US political podcast. If the episodes are frequent, you are also tied regularly to locations with good wi-fi/bandwidth.įund-me platforms are beginning to rejuvenate all kinds of creative art that digital media previously decimated.
#Riley and elyana on the sail boat skin
Video documentaries can pay, but it takes a long time to build up a following, requires a solid understanding of social media and intensive daily work on engagement – and it helps if you are young, fit and look spectacular in a bikini! A thick skin helps too – some online commentators are unkind.Īs carefree as these videos might look, this can turn into a full-time job: the ‘adventures’ need storyboarding, shooting and a huge amount of editing time. These famous vloggers have spawned around 400 copycat channels, and some of these younger vloggers have serious financial commitments including hefty marine mortgages. Running your own sailing vlog isn’t all fun and games They recently got a new yacht by leasing a new Outremer catamaran – this is a serious business. Riley Whitelum’s and Elayna Carausu’s travel and lifestyle videos have a huge following and, with 1,800 paying patrons, they earn just shy of $10,000 per episode. Sailing La Vagabonde is another now famous vlog channel. They make nearly $14,000 a video from 1,800 paying donors, and can create up to four episodes a month. One of the earliest and best of these is Sailing SV Delos, a core group of four very media-savvy people cruising on an Amel Super Maramu. Some creators have established huge followings and make a surprisingly good living. Creators invite donors to pay according to a tiered structure – larger donations for some exclusive merchandise and engagement. This is the principal fund-me platform being used by cruisers, and the most popular product is YouTube video logs or podcasts. If you haven’t yet explored Patreon, take a look. The means of making money while cruising have diversified in recent years thanks principally to the rise of remote or agile working, and the success of fund-me platforms.Ĭreative work is being revalued via new platforms. So, for the purposes of this feature, we’re assuming ‘paid to go sailing’ means being master and commander of your own yacht, going where you please and (more or less) when you fancy.Įlayna Carausu (above) and her partner Riley Whitelum (below) have built up a huge following with their Sailing La Vagabonde lifestyle videos Start a sailing vlog But make no mistake: that route is hard work with long hours and can be extremely limiting you never get to make the important decisions about where you go or when. If your aim is mainly to get a fat executive salary for being on a yacht you can get that too – join the superyacht industry. If you’re smart – and most of these thirtysomething and fortysomething digital natives are smart and skilled – life on board can be turned into a robust business model, one that offers quality family time, a better work/life balance, and maybe a more meaningful existence into the bargain. These highly educated professionals are cruising in comparative comfort. But they are quite different to the impecunious sailing nomads of the 1960s and 1970s. They have decided to downsize, go travelling, perhaps volunteering, and live a simpler, freer life. Imagine escaping the daily routine of work, the long commute, the corporate life, the grey skies… What if you were paid to go sailing, or paid while you were sailing? Is that an impossible dream? Not any more.Ī wave of people are turning their backs on traditional, linear careers and the long wait for financial freedom to take a break or go sailing indefinitely.
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