Sailing La Vagabonde
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Websitesailing-lavagabonde.com
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Channel
Years active2014–present
GenreSailing / Cruising
Subscribers1.85 million[1]
(24 July 2023)
Total views402.97 million[1]
(24 July 2023)
1,000,000 subscribers2019
Last updated: 24 July 2023

Sailing La Vagabonde is a YouTube channel run by Australian video bloggers Riley Whitelum and Elayna Carausu. The channel documents the couple's life aboard their sailing catamaran La Vagabonde. As of July 2023, the channel had over 1.85 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]

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] is currently under construction. 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]

References

  1. 1 2 "About Sailing La Vagabonde". YouTube.
  2. ↑ Carey, Erin (10 March 2021). "YouTube's Sailing Stars". MSN.
  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.
  4. ↑ Sengupta, Somini (12 November 2019). "Goodbye, America: Greta Thunberg to Sail Again After Climate Talks Relocate". The New York Times.
  5. 1 2 Zhou, Naaman (13 November 2019). "Greta Thunberg to hitch a ride to Europe with Australian YouTube influencers". The Guardian.
  6. ↑ "Greta Thunberg arrives in Lisbon after three-week voyage from US". The Guardian. Associated Press. 3 December 2019.
  7. 1 2 Green, Penelope (22 October 2019). "Ahoy There, Mommy! Family Sails Around World on YouTube". The New York Times.
  8. ↑ Wisch, Ali (2 August 2017). "An Interview with Riley and Elayna of Sailing la Vagabonde". Sail.
  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.
  11. 1 2 Collins, Ben (15 November 2016). "YouTube funding couple's million-dollar yacht". ABC News.
  12. 1 2 Britton, Bianca (24 October 2018). "Sailing la Vagabonde: Meet sailing's most popular vloggers". CNN.
  13. ↑ "World Famous Sailing La Vagabonde Upgrades To Rapido 60". boatgoldcoast.com.au. January–February 2022.
  14. ↑ "Sailing La Vagabonde - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
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