Become a YouTuber in 2025!
July 17, 2025 · 41 min · 16K views
What this video covers
Bobby White of Sailing Doodles lays out what nine years and 1,100 videos of full-time sailing YouTube actually require, covering time commitment, gear, editing workflow, consistency, and monetization timelines.0:15
YouTube must function as a full-time job from the start, not a side project.1:23 Editing alone runs 15–20 hours per video for beginners — roughly one hour per finished minute — which makes a 40-hour day job incompatible with serious output.2:11 White recommends producing 30–40 videos before evaluating whether to continue; he himself took eight months to reach $2,000–$3,000 per month, sustained partly by reaching 400 Patreon patrons.3:30 He posts every Thursday and Sunday and has maintained that schedule for eight years, missing only two deadlines in the past year.26:25
On gear, White uses a Sony A7S III with a shotgun mic and ND filters as his primary camera, an DJI Osmo Pocket 3 with two clip-on wireless mics for run-and-gun work, a DJI Mini Pro 4 drone, and an Insta360 X4 for 360 shots.10:02 He flags that Insta360 footage requires a double edit — first in the Insta360 app to convert to 16:9, then again in Premiere Pro.20:24 Starlink eliminated the pre-upload scramble he once needed before a 17-day South Pacific crossing.28:19 He edits in the morning to avoid afternoon burnout and uses Ripple Delete in Premiere Pro to save cumulative hours per edit.31:27
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