| Sailing La Vagabonde | ||||||||||
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| Nationality | Australian | |||||||||
| Website | sailing-lavagabonde | |||||||||
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| Years active | 2014–present | |||||||||
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| Subscribers | 1.9 million  [1](April 2024) | |||||||||
| Total views | 426.6 million[1] (April 2024) | |||||||||
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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 catamaran 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 VirginiatoLisbon for the 2019 United Nations Climate Change ConferenceinMadrid.[5][6][7]
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]
