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!

Tha...

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.

Thanks for supporting this episode. We hope you enjoy the early preview for next week.

Sending with love from us all!

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 so...

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 int...

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.

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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...

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.

Thanks for supporting this episode.

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 y...

We’re live!!

*Scheduled Patreon Live Stream Details*

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

More time zones available here 

If you have a question you'd like us to answer, please type it bel...

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...

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... (Gare...

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 c...

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...

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 i...

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...

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.

Lov...

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...

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?         _____...

Lenny's first snorkel with tiger sharks..

The first time we experienced swimming with sharks, Lenny was only a few months old. I'd say it still remains to be one of the most special experiences we have ever done. This time around, we were really excited to provide this experience for Lenny. I'm sure he will look at them in a different light to those of my friends who grew up watching 'Jaws'.

Let us know what you thought.

Pl...

SUPER QUIZ

***ALL 13 QUESTIONS LISTED BELOW***  Good luck guys. Email your your answers to slvquiz@gmail.com
One point for each correct answer. The first email received with 13 correct answers wins !!  We can't wait to sail with a bunch of you this spring! 🌊Elayna, Riley, Lenny and Darwin.  

Geography
Q1) In what country did we go to watc...

STORM inbound, no protected anchorage!

With forecasted winds coming from every angle, we figured it was a safer option to head into a marina for the night. It was a great opportunity to stock up on fresh food too.

Now this brings us to round two of the charter cabin giveaways. This time around it's a super quiz which will be released during a live stream later this week. We'll send through a link with the times shortly after t...

DIVING into a 180m DEEP BLUE HOLE & Sailing / Spearfishing the BAHAMAS

Hey guys,

This video includes the first of five competitions to win a cabin in one of 3 catamarans this Spring. For all the information, it's at the 11:50 mark of the video. Make sure you put the comment in the YouTube comments (not this Patreon post)

Good luck everyone!

Love Elay, Riles, Lenny and Darwin

Win a cabin on one of 3 catamarans!

We're very excited to announce this collaboration with The Moorings who have donated 3 catamarans for us to share with our patrons and YouTube viewers. For more information, you'll have to watch the video but keep in mind, the website link will not be available until we publish the video to the public. This is by far the biggest meet up we have done so far. There are also a group of patrons who...

Discovering SECRET fishing grounds in the BAHAMAS… 🐠

You know that feeling of enjoying the calm before the storm? We did everything we could to take full advantage of the calm conditions and then it was all about what to do when the not so good weather came in. 

We are currently finalising a video for next week which is announcing our Patreon competition so make sure you tune in for that one. Clues are 'Bahamas' and 'The Moorings'

7 People Living In 1 Boat | Ep.333

As you saw from last week, Eamon & Bec joined us for a taste of Boat Life. Hopefully we can trial their Van Life one day in the future. It takes unique individuals to be able to live with strangers in such small spaces. What did you think of the tour we gave them? Did we miss anything? We may have something very exciting to announce at the end of the month which may or may not relate to a v...