Sailing La Vagabonde

Advised Midflight We're Back In Quarantine :(

If you've been watching our live streams, you may have already got the spoiler. We thought we'd caught our flight just in time to avoid a lockdown in Adelaide only to realise mid flight we were going to be sent into quarantine for two weeks once we landed in Perth. A birthday with friends and family was not to be so we tried to make the best of a bad situation.

Let us know what you thought of the start of this video. We weren't sure if it was obvious enough that we were joking. Did we o...

Goodnight Lenny ⚓️

Thought this video was so precious… here is Riley telling Lenny a story about sailing to get him to sleep. 🥲

We gave this Island $120,000

Join us in Kangaroo Island as we meet the people and wildlife effected by the bushfires of 2020. Thank you to everyone who donated towards their recovery. We hope you enjoy the episode.

Love Elay, Riles, Lenny & Darwin
xo

We're struggling to keep up..

If you've been following our live streams, there wont be any surprises in this video.  (If you missed our last live stream last weekend, you can watch it here). We normally have a small buffer but it has finally caught up with us.

Not to worry though, we have some exciting adventures to show you in the very near future.  Stay tuned for Kangaroo Island and then we are visiting some great spots in Western Austr...

Thanks for tuning in. Lenny wanted to say goodbye 🤗

We’re going LIVE.

See you all soon. If you’re new here, click this video or this link and wait for us to show up (in 25 mins from now) 😚😚😚 https://youtu.be/w49KpUQQggU

Elay, Riley, Lenny and Darwin

Scheduled LIVE Stream This Weekend

Join us LIVE this weekend to discuss all the latest news in this crazy world we're in at the moment. If you have a question for us, be sure to throw it into the comments below or "heart" an existing comment below you want answered. Look forward to catching up with you then!

Love Elay, Riles, Lenny & Darwin

xo

2021-07-27 03:01:29 +0000 UTC View Post

Hidden Gem: Australia's Best Blue Hole!!!

We couldn't believe we didn't know about something so beautiful in our home state . We actually found out about this Kilsby sinkhole when it appeared on our friend Adam's Instagram account. ROAD TRIP! Normally it takes around 5 hours to drive to Mount Gambier but add a toddler and baby and it's a lot longer.

Darwin has been keeping us up at night so apologies we couldn't get it out earlier as we normally do. To make up for it, we're doing a live stream this weekend. We have another stor...

Updated live link

Sorry guys, something strange happened. Here’s a new link: https://youtu.be/QMe0UctHBS0

See you in a min!

We’re going LIVE.

Click this video and wait for us to pop up. So excited to chat 💬

The Birth of Darwin Francisco Carausu (Patreon only version)

We are very excited to show you the birth of our beautiful son Darwin in an extended version we made especially for our extended family here on Patreon. With all the uncertainty of where we were going to be for this birth, we felt so blessed that we were able to be home for it and receive amazing support from friends and family. The coincidental booking of a house directly across the road from one of my best friends and having Riley's mum down the road to babysit Lenny just makes a huge diffe...

37 Weeks Pregnant, in THE MIDDLE of the Desert 😱. Lol

This beautiful land we're travelling across is the traditional lands of the First Nations peoples of the continent, we pay our respects to the traditional owners, to elders past and present.   How good is this, our starting point is probably the furthest from water you can get, in Australia at least. We've swapped the deep blue for the red centre and we're really happy to be able to show you our beautiful Australian outback. We're mounting up and visiting, among other things, the am...

Emotional Homecoming! Surprising Family after a YEAR Overseas 🥺 [#310]

We successfully completed our two weeks quarantine!!! 🥳🥳 Having a child in doors for two weeks is challenging but Lenny was as good as we could have hoped for.
Flying to Alice Springs to surprise the SLV famous Papa Whitelum was super satisfying. With so much uncertainty over the last 18 months, faced with lock downs, changes of plans on a regular basis, it was so comforting to be back in familiar places and seeing familiar faces.

We couldn't be this close to Uluru and Kings C...

Vintage Mustard - for those that saw the live broadcast

Rapido Information (for live stream)

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:

https://rapidotrimarans.com/rapido-60

OUR INTERIOR INSPIRATION:

https://pin.it/209BCTC

https://pin.it/2tRQuD4

Attached is the OCEANVOLT PDF:

LIVE STREAM (we’re talkin’ BOATS)

See you in halfa 🤙 click the video above and wait for us to appear.

Yehah!

Australia Hotel Quarantine [#309]

Join us for our final moments in Antigua as we go on a crazy tour of the world on a mission to get home to Australia (also known as 'Fort Knox' at the moment). This row of flights was super stressful. We were so focused on ensuring we ticked all the boxes required from each country regarding covid testing that we overlooked another major issue. We didn't have our doctor fill out the airline's templated form to say I can fly pregnant over 30 weeks. I think you can imagine the stress and tears ...

Scheduled LIVE Stream: 'Talking Boats' Discussion

Hi everyone!

So this was the livestream we planned for the week we announced the new boat build but little Darwin jumped the queue. If you missed the live stream dedicated to Darwin, you can check it out here. 

If you're interested in our boat build or any boat topics, let us know in the comments on our 2021-06-22 05:09:20 +0000 UTC View Post

If you had more questions!

Thanks for joining us this morning. Always such a fun time talking to you all 🤗 if you had a question we didn’t answer, we’ll try get to them before the end of the day!

Much love to you all. Thanks for being here.

Elay, Riley, Lenny and Darwin x

Meet Darwin (Live Stream)

Hey Crew! We’re going live in half an hour 🤗

Here is the link/video. Just click on either and wait for us to pop up. So excited to share this birth story!

https://youtu.be/InS87hsn5i4

See you soon,

Elay, Riley, Lenny and Darwin

Packing up our Boat Forever... [#308]

Moving out of our home continues and just to throw a spanner in the works, Riley suspects he could have covid-19. After making the decision to have our baby in Australia, being infected with covid could ruin all our well thought through plans.

The long process of cleaning and packing kept us very occupied. Every item we packed away brought back a story or a feeling. There's no better time to reflect on the years gone by, the goals achieved and prepare for the exciting times ahead.

Join Us LIVE This Week!

Hey everyone!

Please accept our apologies about having to delay last weeks 'TALKING BOATS'. Timing just didn't quite work out the way we were hoping but we're going to make up for it with two live streams - same time / consecutive weeks.

LIVE STREAM 1 - TALKING BABIES (Darwin's birth story and everything baby related)

2021-06-15 09:27:50 +0000 UTC View Post

We’re happy and healthy!

Hey guys, meet Darwin Francis Carausu. 🌻

Born on the 11th at 3:12am. Weighing 3.2kg. The birth couldn’t have been better, my faith has been restored hahaha. More posts with more details coming in the next few days, and we’ll also schedule a live stream to meet him in video the next week!

I’ve made a quick recovery and Darwin is feeding and sleeping well. We couldn’t be happier right now. Lenny is also smitten with his little bro 💙

Much love from us x

Live stream postponed lol

Hey team, we hope you’ll forgive us but we’re going to have to postpone our live stream that was scheduled for tomorrow morning! My labour is going fabulously and I’m literally half an hour from seeing his little face 🥺 seems the solar eclipse tonight worked.

Lots of love guys, we’ll reach out as soon as we can.

Elayna and Riley xoxo

The last time we will ever BEACH OUR BOAT [Ep 307]

Now that the news of our new boat build has finally been revealed, we can get back to showing you the last few stories of our chapter on La Vagabonde II. Mixed emotions of course and we couldn't have managed it without the help from Andre, Iona and Tom. Packing up a boat you've been living in for 4 years was a challenge on its own. 

When we filmed this video we weren't 100% certain whether it was going to be ready to publish before or after our boat build reveal so you can understa...

Let's Talk Boats [Thursday 7:30PM USA EDT]

G'day everyone. You will see our boat reveal is now public so we can finally scream it from our rooftops. Thanks for keeping it under wraps until today. We really appreciate it.

So having had the chance to have a good look at the Rapido Trimaran, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Do you like it? What boat would you have chosen? Send through any topics or questions you'd like to discuss. This live stream will be dedicated to just talking boats so if you're interested, I'd love to catch up ...

****SECRET VIDEO**** PLEASE DO NOT SHARE

Here it is. Our big announcement video which is scheduled to be published early next week. We're so excited to show you before anyone else. Feel free to leave a comment in this video  but please, nowhere else. We've done so well to keep it a secret. Only 5 more days to go until we can scream it from our rooftops....

Thank you for being such an amazing community. We couldn't do it without you.

Love Elay, Riles & Lenny

x

Young Riles.

Me at about Lennys age sporting the “Luke Skywalker” rather than the “Farquaarian Do” of late.

Moving to a New Boat! Reasons Why.

If you watched our live stream recently, you know the secret that we will soon be announcing. Before we do that, we thought there might be a lot of questions about why we're not working with our existing boat. We love our boat but we also love to challenge ourselves and show what's possible. Being part of a custom build really excited us and that's why we've gone in this different direction. To be honest, there were far more financial incentives to go with a big builder but we had to follow o...

You’re all still awesome! 👍

In regards to yesterday’s new vessel reveal and a couple of comments that leaked to the public.. we’d like to inform you that they were indeed mistakes and our faith has been restored 1000% in you guys hehe. Rum has the tendency to get the best of us sometimes!! 😆

Fortunately no one saw the comment and as far as we can tell we’re all good.. The main point here though is that trust is restored in the community. We really really need everyone to be cool about this now because we...