The Day I Almost QUIT YOUTUBE!
28 July 2025 · 42 min · 72K views
What this video covers
Bobby White nearly quit Sailing Doodles in January or February 2017 during a solo passage from the Bahamas through the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico — six or seven days aboard without adequate sleep, two large dogs, and monthly losses on the channel.0:54 He had half-decided to stop by mid-passage but reconsidered after arriving and resting.1:56 YouTube revenue did not cover his bills until March or April 2017, roughly eight to nine months after he started, when he was earning $2,000–$2,500 a month.2:08 The Q&A session, drawn from patron and channel-member questions, also covers his plans to sell or raffle his current Mediterranean boat by mid-October, then travel to Thailand in December or January to take delivery of a new all-electric Island SPIRIT 525 catamaran with three cabins plus an office, mast furling, and DC motors.8:05 Routing options after Thailand include sailing to Singapore and shipping to the Mediterranean, or continuing through Indonesia and across the Indian Ocean via the Maldives and Seychelles.8:31 He discusses Mediterranean off-season sailing conditions (cold, gusty, unpredictable weather by October), feathering versus free-spinning propellers under sail, crew-finding challenges, YouTube's face-blur tool for removing crew members from published footage, and how Starlink has drawn younger sailors into the lifestyle.4:57 The Island SPIRIT 525 hull three will be at the Annapolis boat show in October for walkthroughs.11:05
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