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Life — a dream or hard work?

Imagine escaping the daily routine of work and turning your favourite hobby into a money spinner? You can book a yacht on Getboat.com for the first time and tomorrow already make yachting your reason to live. Below are 3 examples of how to make money in the sea!

Start a sailing blog.
Instagram, Youtube, Patreon — if you will work hard for this kind of platforms they will be profitable enough. Donations, advertising, brand collaborations and free stuff. Truly dream life!
One of the earliest and best of these examples is Sailing SV Delos, a core group of four very media-savvy people cruising on an Amel Super Maramu. They make nearly $14,000 a video from 1,800 paying patrons and can create up to four episodes a month. Besides the donations they have profit from youtube monetization and integrations. As 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.

Sailing La Vagabonde is another now famous vlog channel. 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. They recently got a new yacht by leasing a new Outremer catamaran – this is a serious business.

One couple who did just that are Tasha and Ryan Hacker. In 2015 they sold their education business and purchased a new Fontaine Pajot Helia 44, which they named Cheeky Monkey. Over the next 18 months sailed her across the Atlantic to the Caribbean. Through the trip Tasha turned to film-making and started a YouTube channel called Chase the Story. Although she had no prior experience as a film-maker, she had a number of transferable skills such as marketing and communication which allowed her to swiftly grow her audience and increase exposure.

Renting yachts and sailing under the hired captain’s leadership is one thing, but being a skipper yourself has just a totally different feel in it.

With this post we are launching a new feature called "How to become a skipper” where we will walk you through all the steps of becoming a real sea captain. Aye aye, sir!

Today we will discuss the most important thing — how do I get a skipper's license?

Well, first of all, you need to do some learning and training.

The scoop is very similar to one of a driving school: there is also a test on theory and a practice exam.

But there are two approaches.

The first implies that you study the theory and all issues related to yachting separately: from design to navigation. The main advantage of this option is that you have several classes per week and you also can study in your city. Then you need to go for an internship, which usually lasts 7-10 days. If you pass it successfully, the instructor decides whether to grant you a license.

The second approach is usually a two-week intensive training. Practice here begins a few days after the start of theory and then you do a bit of practice and a bit of theory every day till the end of the course (which ends with an exam). This approach will need you to take a vacation from your job, obviously. The downside here is the need to learn a huge amount of theoretical material in a very short time, but on the upside you will be able to apply it on practice right on the spot, which makes it very easy to comprehend.

Look for the best skipper schools' pricelists in our next post.