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What do you want to see in a boating video channel? Most focus mostly on the destinations, activities and the "adventure". Some talk a bit about operating a boat including navigation, route planning, etc. And some talk about boat maintenance, upgrades, and repairs.
What mix are you looking for?
All of the above. Which is not easy to do while being entertaining or interesting. If the video does not entertain, or is not interesting, then no viewers.
For us, Delos has found a good mix. Sometimes it is not so interesting to us, and sometimes we have been shocked that the places they visited WERE interesting to us in spite of our previous opinions. They do seem to get a mix of the all of the above though they seem to lean towards the more social and travel aspect of cruising. Having said that, they do have some very interesting shows on equipement, installation, repair etc.
Delos has quite a bit of content on the social scene which one could argue is the simplest to video but I think it is really what they do, and in the end, they are pretty much documenting in video, their life on the boat. Since much of it is meeting new people and going to parties, that is what is shown. The travel is interesting to us, the parties, not so much.
I have read criticism about the videos of their baby, and there is another channel we watch with a baby, but we find those videos interesting, and sometimes funny, even though we are not gong to have more children. How they handle diapers was interesting and how they are going to deal with a toddler starting to gain mobility is going to be interesting.
We FINALLY caught up on the Delos videos, we have been months behind them but the lock down has allowed us to catch up which allows us to watch more of other people's channels. Now we are watching Patrick Laine videos which is about a retired pilot, solo sailing around Europe and the Atlantic. I like his videos because he shows what went well and and what did not. He is not afraid to post his failures or mistakes. He spends quite a bit of time showing his sail setup, under what conditions and weather/route planning.
What is a bit odd is that he does not really show video on the places he visits. He does not seem to spend more than a day or three at some/most locations before moving on. He has passed through areas at a very fast pace, that we have spent a couple of weeks traveling through and we felt we had moved too quickly through those places. Furthermore, if we had not been moving to a vacation schedule, we could spend months, if not years in these areas. It appears that he likes the passage more than the destination. He also has a sense of humor we like.
We watch more YouTube videos, mostly history and boat related, than regular TV. Regular TV is just trash and we gave up on paying for cable trash years ago. Youtube just has far better content than TV. Some people don't like the boat video bloggers, and many times I think it is jealousy that the vloggers have figured out away to fund their boating lifestyle but many of these boaters provide much better content for free compared to TV shows, that cost a fortune if one pays for cable TV.
Later,
Dan
