Sailing La Vagabonde

HOW I QUIT MY JOB TO SAIL THE WORLD

One of the most common questions we're asked by new viewers is "how did Riley start sailing?" But trying to get Riley to talk about himself on YouTube is like trying to get blood out of a stone! Amongst sailing the Ragged Islands and spearfishing for lobster, join us for some laughs as I attempt to squeeze the story from Riley of how he ended up sailing La Vagabonde, once and for all!

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Love Elay, Riles, Lenny & Darwin

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Rapido 3D model

This is a work in progress but in the end we hope to have a good working model of this. Not for mobile yet so access only on computer.

How good does the the vintage mustard look??? 😎

1 HOUR of UN-EDITED BOAT LIFE (Sensory)

Now THIS episode is a little different. We haven't invented how to teleport but hopefully this 55 minutes is the next best thing to spending a day on board with us.

Slower pace so you can really take it all in. Let us know if you want to see more like it.

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Sending with love from us all!

Elay, Riles, Lenny & Darwin x

Why I’ve been distant lately..

*I realize there is a war, people dying of starvation etc but I think it's important for personal issues to be shared to make people aware of what life might be like inside another person. The human experience in all of its gory and real manifestations. It would have been so much easier to hide this issue I've been having, but I know how many other people there are out there, struggling with something. I figured that maybe by me being raw and honest with you guys, you will realize we all have...

Rapido Layout

https://beyond.3dnest.biz/classic/?m=b819aab6_dIK3_b6f9

Above is the link to the 3D tour of the Rapido 50 (which actually just won multihull of the year.) If I have failed to place the appropriate link it’s just Rapido website > Model > 50 > 3D interactive layout

If anyones interested, this is the interior layout we have eventually gone for. Colours, wood, sink everything wil...

Interior Design

Elayna wants these in the Rapido. They’re actually not heavy compared to a normal sink. What do you all think? Groovy or decadent? Suave or gaudy?

I’M SO DISAPPOINTED IN MYSELF.

As I say in the video, easy to brush this off but really it was a huge error. I’m trying to highlight this for everyone to learn from and also for myself in order to maintain a high level of vigilance as the years wear on.

Something so small can end up putting the lives of the crew in danger. We’ll it did, I guess. Anyway watch the vid and let me know what you think.

Cheers, Riley.

We collaborated with YouTube for Earth Day!

This was a really cool experience to work with an experienced filming crew on board La Vagabonde. You might find this a little different to our normal videos but hey, you know we love to mix it up every now and then. We learnt a heap, hopefully you learnt something too. Let us know what you thought.

Now I know we haven't been so good at getting our videos out early for you lately which we are truly sorry. But I promise you we are putting our heads together to make it happen again so sta...

Larger than a small child. Remote Island LOBSTER.

Join us back in the Bahamas with Jack and Fran from Back 2 Basics. We do a heap of spearfishing in this one, sourcing food for many of our surrounding cruisers. This lobster was by far our biggest catch. We weren't the only hungry ones though, we had to fight off the sharks too.

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Love Elay, Riles, Lenny & Darwin

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FREEDIVING TO 50M!

We're back at one of our favourite freediving blue holes and we've brought some friends. You may remember Jack & Fran from Back2Basics during our time in Western Australia last year. What started off as a few days became almost a week as SOMEONE was very eager not to leave until they reached their milestone depth of 50M.

Thanks to everyone who jumped on our live stream yesterday. If you missed it and would like to see the recording, you can view it 2022-03-28 16:53:19 +0000 UTC View Post

We’re live!!

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Free to chat this weekend? We'd love to fill you in on all the latest news.

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If you have a question you'd like us to answer, please type it below in the comments and if it's already below, be sure to "heart" it so we can give those some priori...

BOAT LIFE: I've given up hope..

We get asked regularly about our thoughts on the state of our oceans and our answer is that we're genuinely concerned.  In this episode we wanted to emphasise that this issue isn't going away and how important it is to do everything we can to protect and restore our reefs.

Are you still hopeful that we can turn it around? Would love to hear your thoughts on it.

Love Elay, Riles, Lenny & Darwin

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Hand feeding SHARKS from our FLOATING HOME! 🦈

These sharks in the Bahamas never fail to excite us and it turns out we're not the only ones obsessed with them. These sharks produce a ton of tourism in these sanctuary's. Good news for everyone involved.

You know what I'm thinking?...... Will there ever be a boy born who can swim faster than a shark... (Gareth from The Office UK version)

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Help Us Fill Cabin Number #5

How amazing were all these photos? We counted 127 photos and we absolutely ❤️ loved ❤️ each and every one of them. It was so much fun looking through them all. There was such a range of entries, we had real difficulties shortlisting these. We're sorry to those who didn't make it. We really did appreciate every photo posted. What we tried to do was firstly include those who matched the criteria, then to include a mix of entries who showed either humour, a creative side, or just provide...

La Vagabonde creates an App!

Hey crew, you know we've always trusted you guys (our Patreon family) the most when it has come to sharing our ideas and projects we've been working on. We've been brainstorming behind the scenes about an app!! An app that would essentially connect all ocean lovers (sailors, powerboats, seaside land lubbers, divers etc). An app to find a buddy boat of like minded people! To host an event on the beach! To find fellow cruisers with kids to link up with in the area.

We've narrowed it down ...

7 years of me and you (this is our story) 🥺

Join us for a trip down memory lane as we reminisce some of the biggest moments in our 7 years of Sailing La Vagabonde (and even a little bit before). 

What has been your most memorable moment on Sailing La Vagabonde thus far?

We simply couldn't have got this far without you so thank you for being our rock of support.

Love Elay, Riles, Lenny & Darwin

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Enter for Crew Member #5

For this one, we're utilising our community page here on Patreon. (click here to find our community page)

Post a photo of you with just ONE reason why you need to be at our regatta this spring. The reason can be added in text underneath or in the photo. We will shortlist our finalists. Entries close this Thursday (Mar...

Staying ZEN when we nearly RAN AGROUND!

It became a recent realisation of how calm we both are when coming close to running aground. I can tell you it's not like that on board every boat.

The weather really has been all over the place lately which is a good excuse to mix it up with various different islands on and off the boat. We were able to get back to one of our favourite spots of the Bahamas - Hurricane Dorian really did a number on it only a few years ago.

Not long now and we'll be into Spring where the weather sh...

Photo Winner: Congratulations Katelyn Kanter!

Congratulations Katelyn! You are our winner with 321 votes.

Congratulations to our runners up Lauren (202 votes) and Todd (110 votes), we're going to send you through a runners up prize via direct message shortly.

Thanks to everyone for making this competition so enjoyable for us. We hope you had fun too! We have one final competition left which you will find out shortly.

Love Elay, Riles, Lenny & Darwin

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Photo Finalists [Please vote for your favourite]

Thanks to everyone who entered. We had so much fun looking through these and you made it super difficult on who would be the finalists. Now it's up to you to pick the winner to get them a spot on one of 3 catamarans for Spring. Who ever has the most votes by Sunday 6PM EST will be announced the winner. 

Good luck!!

We stayed at a marina with a water park...

Have you seen 'Into The Blue' with Jessica Alba? Her character (Sam) in the movie was working as a shark handler at Atlantis Bahamas on Paradise Island north of the main island of Nassau. If you have been here we'd love to hear your experience. If you haven't been here, would you ever consider going? This place was highly recommended by other cruisers but we went into this with little knowle...

SINGLE QUESTION COMPETITION

Please read the question carefully....

What is the name of the boat builder for
1) our first sailboat.              _____________ Build Completion Year _______
2) our current sailboat and_____________ Build Completion Year _______
3) our future sailboat?         _____________

Must be correct spelling and include the boat completion year for boats 1 & ...