Sailing La Vagabonde

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Sailing La Vagabonde
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Channel
Years active2014–present
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Subscribers1.97 million
Views466 million
Last updated: 27 January 2026
Website sailing-lavagabonde.com

Sailing La Vagabonde is a YouTube channel run by Australian video bloggers Riley Whitelum and Elayna Carausu along with their children Lenny and Darwin. [1] The channel documents the couple's life aboard their sailing tri-maran La Vagabonde. The channel has over 1.97 million subscribers and is the most popular sailing YouTube channel. [2] [3] 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. [4] [5] [6]

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History

The channel was founded in 2014 after Whitelum and Carausu met in Greece. [7] [8] 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. [9] [10] [11] The series began aboard their Beneteau Cyclades sailboat. [12] 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. [11] [12] Their next sailboat, a Rapido 60 trimaran, [13] 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. [14] [5] [7] 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. [15] [16] [17]

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References

  1. ↑ Whitelum (2024). "Our Story". Sailing La Vagabonde.
  2. ↑ Carey, Erin (10 March 2021). "YouTube's Sailing Stars". MSN . Archived from the original on 21 April 2021. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. 1 2 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.
  6. ↑ "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.
  7. 1 2 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.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ Pascoe, Alley (4 June 2016). "I crowdfunded my holiday". News.com.au . Archived from the original on 13 November 2019. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. 1 2 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.
  12. 1 2 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.
  13. ↑ "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.
  14. ↑ "Sailing La Vagabonde - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Archived from the original on 23 January 2022. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  15. ↑ 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.
  16. ↑ 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.
  17. ↑ 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.
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