Sailing La Vagabonde

Sailing La Vagabonde
Personal information
Nationality	Australian
Website	sailing-lavagabonde.com
YouTube information
Channel	Sailing La Vagabonde
Years active	2014–present
Genres	Sailing cruising
Subscribers	1.9 million [1] (April 2024)
Total views	438.7 million[1] (October 2024)
Creator Awards 100,000 subscribers 1,000,000 subscribers 2019

Sailing La Vagabonde is a YouTube channel run by Australian video bloggers Riley Whitelum and Elayna Carausu along with their children Lenny and Darwin.^[2] The channel documents the couple's life aboard their sailing tri-maran La Vagabonde. As of July 2023^[update], the channel had over 1.85 million subscribers and is the most popular sailing YouTube channel.^[3][4] In November 2019, they received significant media attention for sailing Greta Thunberg onboard La Vagabonde from Virginia to Lisbon for the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid.^[5][6][7]

History

The channel was founded in 2014 after Whitelum and Carausu met in Greece.^[8][9] The couple sustains their sailing by producing a weekly video blog on YouTube that is also funded by income from the crowdfunding web site Patreon.^[10][11][12] The series began aboard their Beneteau Cyclades sailboat.^[13] Following the success of their channel, they negotiated a discounted price with the company Outremer for the catamaran that they sailed from 2017 until 2022.^[12][13] Their next sailboat, a Rapido 60 trimaran,^[14] was launched on 2023. Between 2014 and 2022, the pair sailed over 160,000 kilometres (100,000 mi) combined, including four Atlantic Ocean crossings and one Pacific Ocean crossing.^[15][6][8] In March 2023, one of their videos received international media attention as it showed Whitelum fighting off a pack of monkeys that attacked him and his children on an island beach in Thailand.^[16][17][18]

See also

• Sailing SV Delos – American sailing/travel/cruising YouTube channel since 2009
• Sailing Triteia – Sailing travel vlog since 2015
• Sam Holmes Sailing – Sailing travel vlog since 2006
• Wind Hippie Sailing – Sailing travel vlog since 2011

References

1. "About Sailing La Vagabonde". YouTube.
2. Whitelum (2024). "Our Story". Sailing La Vagabonde.
3. Carey, Erin (10 March 2021). "YouTube's Sailing Stars". MSN. Archived from the original on 21 April 2021. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
4. Shine, Rhiannon; Carmody, James (13 November 2019). "Stranded climate activist Greta Thunberg offered a lift by Aussies sailing the world with their son". ABC News. Archived from the original on 14 November 2019. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
5. Sengupta, Somini (12 November 2019). "Goodbye, America: Greta Thunberg to Sail Again After Climate Talks Relocate". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 14 November 2019. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
6. Zhou, Naaman (13 November 2019). "Greta Thunberg to hitch a ride to Europe with Australian YouTube influencers". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 15 March 2023. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
7. "Greta Thunberg arrives in Lisbon after three-week voyage from US". The Guardian. Associated Press. 3 December 2019. Archived from the original on 12 December 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
8. Green, Penelope (22 October 2019). "Ahoy There, Mommy! Family Sails Around World on YouTube". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 13 November 2019. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
9. Wisch, Ali (2 August 2017). "An Interview with Riley and Elayna of Sailing la Vagabonde". Sail. Archived from the original on 13 November 2019. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
10. Pascoe, Alley (4 June 2016). "I crowdfunded my holiday". News.com.au. Archived from the original on 13 November 2019. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
11. Bunting, Elaine (26 March 2019). "How to get paid to go sailing – 5 different options for living the dream". Yachting World. Archived from the original on 2 June 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
12. Collins, Ben (15 November 2016). "YouTube funding couple's million-dollar yacht". ABC News. Archived from the original on 13 November 2019. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
13. Britton, Bianca (24 October 2018). "Sailing la Vagabonde: Meet sailing's most popular vloggers". CNN. Archived from the original on 14 November 2019. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
14. "World Famous Sailing La Vagabonde Upgrades To Rapido 60". boatgoldcoast.com.au. January–February 2022. Archived from the original on 12 April 2023. Retrieved 12 April 2023.
15. "Sailing La Vagabonde - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Archived from the original on 23 January 2022. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
16. Francis, Chantelle (23 March 2023). "Aussie dad takes on pack of aggressive monkeys as they lunge at his son in Thailand". News.com.au. Archived from the original on 21 March 2023. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
17. Jain, Anusha (23 March 2023). "Shocking Moment Australian Vlogger Dad Punches Monkey To Save His Son". India Times. Archived from the original on 9 April 2023. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
18. Heren, Kit (21 March 2023). "Shocking moment monkeys attack baby boy on idyllic island beach as father leaps in to punch them away". LBC. Archived from the original on 8 May 2023. Retrieved 13 February 2024.

External links

• Official website
• Sailing La Vagabonde's channel on YouTube