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Nationality | Australian | |||||||||
Website | sailing-lavagabonde | |||||||||
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Years active | 2014–present | |||||||||
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Subscribers | 1.85 million[1] (July 2023) | |||||||||
Total views | 402.97 million[1] (July 2023) | |||||||||
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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[update], 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]
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] 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.[15][16][17]