No Navigation? No Problem. [Ep. 141]
Sailing up the west coast of Antigua with our pals Christian and Katy has been swell (pun intended), until one morning when we woke up, fired up the engine keen to set off on a new adventure only to find our navigation gear was down and out. No depth sounder or wind speed indicator. We fired up the satellite phone and called up Outremer HQ after a little bit of investigatory analysis. Alas, we had no luck. Join us diving shipwrecks, living off the land and exploring some gorgeous spots here on our part of the world!
Thanks for your support!
Made with love,
Elay (& Riles)
xo
No Navigation? No Problem. (Sailing La Vagabonde) Ep. 141 (YouTube)
Comments (34)
Diggin’ that hat Riley!
Wonderfully done as always!!!
Hey Guys - we just rented a Lagoon 42 bareboat in the BVI on June 15th! The girls have never been sailing, your videos have been a wonderful inspiration. We watch them every Sunday morning! The islands NEED tourism to return after Irma and Maria - so... we are on our way. Would love to see the world famous La Vagabond if you are still in the Caribbean!
Such a good video...well done guys...!! 👌 (even though you guys are killing me, cant stop googling Outremers for sale and fantasising about how I could make it work😄😩)
my pop sailed sextant . Celestial navigation is cool, so retro
Another wonderful video guys! I hope you plan to spend a day exploring Nelson's Harbour while you're there because they've done a great job of restoring a lot of the buildings etc. and it's a really interesting experience for anyone who blue water sails to imagine what it was like all those years ago. There are usually some awesome boats in the harbour there as well. Be very careful of the Manchineel trees too if you stop on any remote islands around there where they may not be posted with warnings. My girlfriend got very bad burns on her face after running under one to get out of a rainstorm and the rain washed the acid onto her. <a href="https://youtu.be/odQjUiuKhLg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/odQjUiuKhLg</a>
i am so jealous i love Antigua and the Caribbean,just be VERY careful eating the reef fish .ciguatera disease is in many reefs in the Caribbean. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciguatera" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciguatera</a>
That's the best sailing and nav instruction ever, keep it simple and fingers crossed.
First comment ever, but I've been afaithfun fan '15+, then my daughter gave me a Xmas patreon present last yr.... So< I thought I'd let you know "Pants" is setting the "standard" for world wide style. JLo just got your Cut. Ril did the deed on the straight and narrow
I just googled "JLO haircut 2018" ha! I'm not sure it's the same cut, she wasn't brave enough to go shoulder height :) haha
Thanks again for a beautiful video set in that glorious part of the world ,like Katy I'm wary of fishbones too having had one or two in the mouth luckly,before swallowing them ,so now I mainly eat fillet fish fingers ,less chance of a bone,and tend to pick about like Katy was doing,imagine getting a fishbone it the throat whilst in the middle of nowhere ? I once got a piece of an old towel stuck in the top of my windpipe ,don't ask....I went to hospital they couldn't see it,I was constantly retching for 3 days it came up during the last session (I hope you are not eating) very uncomfortable experience. I can't find Katy's channel ,whats her channel name please ? enjoy yourselves.and take care. xx
Sound terrible Anthony, we're fortunate enough not to have experienced something like that. You can find Katy and Christian's channels in the video description: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1iL3hbwIME" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1iL3hbwIME</a>
What you guys do is Magic. You're adorable personalities and gorgeous videos on my big screen TV have caused me to fall in love with you guys.. please keep sailing and continue touching our hearts
Cheers Sean! Glad you're enjoying them on the big screen.
Great episode! :) Are you still inviting patrons onboard?
Riley - time to buy some paper charts and skip the technology dependency on navigation :-) it’s more fun
Just another gr8 vid! Loved ur guests, they must come back! Enjoy! Luv 'ya!
Looks like your guests had a wonderful experience, just think all the electronic do dads and such and you are left with a cell phone. Just think about the wonderful technology which just does not work when needed.
Glad you had a nice week I guess the technical problem sorted it self out or we wait to see next week what it was
p.s. Riley, I tried eating from a pan during last night's dinner.. my wife liked to beat me with that same pan.. Yep that didn't go as successfully as I thought it would.
From our house to your boat, Valerie and I sending out a shout hello from downstate Illinois! Seriously, we so appreciate you guys so much!
Rad video! Would love to connect if you’re ever in California or our second home, the Great Lakes!
So what is the best way to pick out an island pineapple? Someone told me once the smaller pineapples have the same sugar content as the larger ones so they are sweeter! Hello from Minnesota!!
OMG! We were at the exact same spot just year ago. #niceweek #partyoffive Dove down on same shipwreck and climbed the cliff of the beach with old ruins . But had a scary story to tell. Run out of food that night so tried to go to hotel of the beach for dinner which was in despair and opted out to take a cab to town late in evening in scary dark roads and ended up in Burger King, only place open at that time. Drove back in another cab to the deserted beach to take a dinghy back to boat in pitch black. There was a dead baby goat on water on approach we saw going in to anchorage earlier...there is story about Chicago Cubs baseball team and a goat curse. You can google that. And there was a baby goat rescue we saw that fell off the cliff to water level, screamed it's head off and could not get back up. All documented on video. Baby goat was saved by fellow sailors who paddled to cliff picked up the baby goat and showed it up the cliff to re-join it's herd. And #partyoffive was a name of a catamaran we anchored to next with family of five day later. And we were also five on our boat so that stuck as well as #niceweek. Check our video made by my first mate Jon Van Norman aka Storming Norman: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPGpst0wIbg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPGpst0wIbg</a> Cheers!
Another awesome vid you guys just keep on smashing it out of the park pure gold cheers guys
What a beautiful place and look forward to your Eastern US travels! Look for Ocracoke NC you will not be disappointed!
Amazing video from west side of Antigua. Brings back fond memories. Thanks so much!
P.s. any live shows in the near future?
Hi Garry! We are planning an event for mid June in Miami. Stay tuned, more information to come very soon.
Rileyn with all the damage you've been doing to yourself lately I thought you were going to cut your hand when you crushed the garlic. Elayna stop giving Riley sharp pointy things. Otherwise it was a great video. Since this video is about a month back I hope you two are doing well in real time.
Nicely done! Maybe Katy sabotaged the electronics to keep from sailing anymore? Just kidding... she's awesome.
:) she provided plenty of entertainment
Riley use a fid to break the knot it’s the thing that looks like a curved ice pick on the other side of your rigging knife !
You might want to carry an Small assortment of 'rigging' FIDs to align repair parts in addition to working lines (woven wire, naturals and synthetic). When things don't fit, use fid + hammer...
