Sailing La Vagabonde

Having our own private Jetty was a very cool treat! Join us in the glorious Abaco Islands in the Bahamas as we nail some jobs, get creative in the art room and spend the rest of our time underwater 💦💙 Thanks so much for your support! Enjoy! ❤️Elay, Riles & Lenny P.S Stay tuned for later in the mon

Join us as we make the most of being tied up alongside the jetty at our friends place in the Abaco Islands. We're certainly not complaining. Very cool spot! Enjoy guys! Sending lots of love from La Vagabonde Riley & Elayna (& Lenny) xo Time to put the crew to work. Ep. 181 (YouTube)

Hey everyone, Riley here. Elayna is busy attending to Lenny so she's got me posting this week. We had a great day in this episode. I enjoy a successful spearfish including the two nice sized hogfish whilst the girls explored the island on golf buggies. We cooked up the hogfish and invited a few frie

Join us for a flashback to the past, on our sail up to the Berry Islands. One thing we've realised since we started travelling is that its really not all about the destination... it's about the journey. All the struggles, the mistakes, the sleepless nights. Those are what make it an adventure. Those

There's nothing better than catching your own seafood, cooking it up on the beach to share with friends, early morning yoga and frolicking around in crystal clear water until the sun goes down. How many pieces of Elayna's cutlery will it take for this spearfishing experiment to be shutdown? :) Thank

Join us for a spontaneous last minute trip to see one of the deepest blue holes in the world; Deans Blue Hole. We'd been in touch with Adam Stern, Australia's record freediver, and he said we should come hangout and watch the freediving competition Vertical Blue that's held every year at this specta

Having snuck into our spot at high tide it seemed far less treacherous than when it dropped later that afternoon and we were completely surrounded by coral reef. I would get up on deck and have a look around and just slowly shake my head every half an hour or so. We decided to tie off the stern to a

Riley goes spearfishing solo and manages to grab some us some perfect, white fleshed reef fish for a spaghetti marinara. Does anyone else's partner have the tendency to fall asleep after eating spaghetti? 🍝 😂 Join us on our last leg of our journey over to Nassau where we park up at Palm Cay Marina

A few days at sea, just Riley and me. We anchor in the middle of the Great Bahama Bank in the flattest, clearest water in the whole freaking world!! What's also super romantic about this sail is our little chat about boat toilets and some horror stories from the past 😂🚽 has anyone else nearly died

Of course Riley was game enough to pick up a baby lemon shark darting around in the shallow waters of the Bahamas 😱 not for me, no matter how cute it was! Join us as we repair sails, take you for a tour through the Bimini Shark Lab, get declined from stepping foot on a private island, before making

You can't miss this invaluable lesson with Riley today folks.. he's showing you how to mount a dingy 😂. Tiger shorts, optional. Welcome back to the sunny Bahamas, with 80% humidity and a high chance of exhaustion if you're not in the ocean. Join Riley and myself onboard La Vagabonde for a little ad

Meanwhile in the Bahamas, we're on a mission to fill our freezers onboard. We've been in the city for a while now and it's so great to be anchored in crystal blue waters and doing what we really love once again. Feel free to join Riley and I onboard for a pretty chilled episode, mostly under the sur

Hey amazing people! We've managed to get another episode out for you this week! Happy days as we leave sight of the city, for a long while. Although, it was quite sad saying goodbye to our new friends from Just Catamarans and some old ones we'd met in Colombia in 2016. Join us for the Bimini Shuffle

Join us for the great haul out in the humid as heck, Florida 👩🏽‍🔬👨🏻‍🔬. Our friend Terry actually gets struck by the static of lightning and thrown on his butt in the boat yard! Crazy. Have you seen my 'La Vagabonde Mum' YouTube channel yet? When we set this episode (#166) to public we'll also

It's been a good year since we've paid any REAL attention to La Vagabonde. Besides polishing the stainless, scraping the bottom when she gets a little molluscy and maintaining our equipment onboard, she's usually keeps things fairly easy for us. But we are in need of a few installations and we are d

Join us for our sailing trip in Florida with myself, Riles, and our bunch of new friends. A freediving lesson for these guys was a must, and we also couldn't let them leave without tasting some Vegemite. We spend some time exploring what Miami has to offer and we were stoked to find some hidden gems

We trade island life for the city this week. But, for good reason. We finally get to meet our lovely group of Patrons who flew from all over to come see us and we're really excited to introduce them to you. Honestly, what an epic bloody week! Join us as we sail Biscayne Bay. Florida is going to be f

It's all go go go here onboard La Vagabonde. We run into a few dramas on the main island of the Bahamas checking in and out of the country on the same day (you know how much we love doing that). It was as if we didn't follow the correct immigration procedures or something 😂. Join us for another hum

We were completely stumped on what title to give this one. I made this video, and then I made it again, and then I changed it, and I changed it again and I really couldn't figure out what it was about exactly. We're on our way to Florida, as you guys know, so we're moving pretty quickly through thes

I was warned. Various cruisers who we had met that had been in the area previously all knew what these pigs were like. People said to me "you watch out for them pigs son they'll gitcha." Alas, I did not listen. The bite through the shorts doesn't actually look too bad but in the next few days will b

We sail 100nm overnight to our first stop in the Bahamas, Acklins Island. Being pregnant on a boat, you can imagine it can make any slight feelings of morning sickness or nausea amplify. So on this trip, I was feeling very nauseous the whole time and basically didn't leave my little sleeping spot in

Riley nearly knelt on a Stonefish, the most venomous fish in the world. Crazy stuff! I don't want to think about the mayhem that would have followed in getting Riley to the mainland had he been stung... Whilst not currently being conch season as we post this today, it was the correct time when we fi

We pay a visit to the hospital to stitch Riley back up after he fell down a hatch, immediately after running our boat aground. The Turks and Caicos is considered world class diving and now Riley isn't allowed to swim for at least a week. It's going to kill the poor boy. Join us and our Australian fa

Yep. La Vagabonde got washed onto a sand bank and she wasn’t moving. It probably would have helped if the channel marker hadn't been washed away in a storm. With the wind and waves pushing us closer and closer to the rocks and shore, we were going to need some serious help to pull us out.. and fast!

A lot of "The Pale King" by David Foster Wallace is based around the psychical suffering that is inflicted on people who's job requires them to create or enforce arbitrary bureaucratic hurdles on civilians. The infliction of the inflictors. Trying to navigate the various webs of institutions and the

Freediving, lost in the depths of the uninhabited Sombrero Island..Join us as we set the sails for the open ocean once again on our way to a new country. We have 3-4 days at sea ahead of us and we've never been more thrilled about it. Thanks a million for your love and support 💛 Elay & Riles xo Fre

There has been a lot of fish hunting lately here in the Med. Unfortunately, it has almost always ended with an empty handed, disappointed Riles swimming back to the boat. There is an alarming amount of over fishing going on here in the Mediterranean Sea. 97% of the fish stocks that are assessed are

We’d completed our first sail in La Vagabonde, about 230nm from La Grande Motte to the Balearic Islands - Spain! The last time we were in Mallorca was in 2014, when we arrived with a broken rudder. We spent weeks working with Gregor (do you guys remember this legend from early on in the videos?) and

Hey guys / gals! It was our last sail on Encore before we fly back to France and pick up our Catamaran to finally go exploring in it. We left beautiful Mays Bay and head back to the mainland, to jump in a helicopter and see the places we had just sailed to from above. The Great Barrier Reef is prett