Sailing La Vagabonde
Sailing LaVagabonde 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 2019[update], the channel had over one million subscribers.[1] 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.[2][3][4]
History
The channel was founded in 2014 after Whitelum and Carausu met in Greece.[5][6] 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.[7][8][9] The series began aboard their Beneteau Cyclades sailboat.[10] Following the success of their channel, they negotiated a discounted price with the company Outremer for the catamaran that they have sailed since 2017.[9][10] Between 2014 and 2018, the pair sailed over 105,000 kilometres (65,000 mi) combined, including three Atlantic ocean crossings and one Pacific ocean crossing.[3][5]
References
- ^ "Stranded climate activist Greta Thunberg offered a lift by Aussies sailing the world with their son". 13 November 2019.
- ^ Sengupta, Somini (12 November 2019). "Goodbye, America: Greta Thunberg to Sail Again After Climate Talks Relocate". The New York Times.
- ^ a b Zhou, Naaman (13 November 2019). "Greta Thunberg to hitch a ride to Europe with Australian YouTube influencers". The Guardian.
- ^ Press, Associated (3 December 2019). "Greta Thunberg arrives in Lisbon after three-week voyage from US" – via www.theguardian.com.
- ^ a b Green, Penelope (22 October 2019). "Ahoy There, Mommy! Family Sails Around World on YouTube". The New York Times.
- ^ "An Interview with Riley and Elayna of Sailing la Vagabonde". 2 August 2017.
- ^ "I crowdfunded my holiday". 4 June 2016.
- ^ "How to get paid to go sailing – 5 different options for living the dream". 26 March 2019.
- ^ a b "YouTube funding couple's million-dollar yacht". abcnet.au. 15 November 2016.
- ^ a b "Sailing la Vagabonde: Meet sailing's most popular vloggers". cnn.com. 24 October 2018.