Dear ladies and gentlemen thank you for entering the description section of dream job reality check. It is here that you will learn a little bit more about the video that is playing above. Some things that I would like to highlight is that if you love what you are doing that nothing is ever really l...
2018-03-09 14:29:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Off we go, gybing out of the notoriously busy Gibraltar Strait. Sea container ships galore... and La Vagabonde amongst the mayhem trying not to get in anyones way. Our good pal Josje is back to help us with the sail down to the Canary Islands, we love her! Join us as we set off on an entirely new ad...
2018-03-06 06:08:45 +0000 UTC View Post
After a spontaneous trip to the blue town, Riles and I crank the engine for Ceuta in no wind.. which means no sailing.. which means way too much free time out there. Join us for a dolphin party, a missed fish and good vibes all round.
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We sail west, along the northern Moroccan coastline. It’s all go go go right now, just making quick stops in every few ports so that we can make our exit out of the Mediterranean. New oceans are calling our names. We tie off the boat in another marina that’s pretty much deserted and head into th...
2018-02-20 05:04:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We thought we were anchored at a ‘deserted’ island above Morocco until a boat came flying around the corner, 6 men in uniforms, one with a machine gun in hand, to tell us we had to leave… IMMEDIATELY. We had unknowingly jumped in the water for a swim in a military zone… our navigation charts...
2018-02-13 00:13:14 +0000 UTC View Post
This video sums up what an average sail on La Vagabonde across the sea is really like for us. With only two crew onboard, there is never a dull moment or time for boredom. We’re pretty much always busy doing SOMETHING. Our moods and energy levels are highly influenced by the weather. Rough nights ...
2018-02-06 01:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
We go for a scooter ride around the island on what could fairly well be described as a lighthouse tour headed by Christian, "the inspector". You don't see it in the videos but Logan absolutely refused to keep up with everyone and would arrive at least 10 minutes late to each lighthouse much to every...
2018-01-29 22:46:00 +0000 UTC View Post
After a moonless night at sea, we arrived in Menorca - Balaeric Islands. Our patrons found us and we get to spend the next week with them sailing and exploring what this INCREDIBLE island has to offer. Join us and the crew for good times 😄 We hope to meet many more of you awesome humans in the ve...
2018-01-23 12:28:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Off we go, sailing upwind for a 260nm journey to Sardinia. On top of that, a broken engine upon our arrival means we received some help upon our arrival. But this has got to be one of my favourite adventures of the year! It’s funny how when things don’t go as smooth as you’d expected, those en...
2018-01-16 03:06:52 +0000 UTC View Post
It was our last day sailing at sea, before we’d be making landfall in Tunisia, a country in northern Africa. The wind picked up and for the last few hours we were absolutely hammering into the wind and waves with a bandaged up captain Riley, Josje the magnificent and I. HELLO TUNISIA. Let’s get ...
2018-01-08 20:38:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm terribly sorry for the 'click bait' title Patreon fam!! Sometimes we have to play the YouTube game. I hope you can forgive us hahahaha. Have a laugh with us as we watch the playback of Riley hitting his head (which is a very serious issue, we know... things could have been much worse and it was ...
2018-01-05 06:34:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Ohhhh dear. Well I wasn't expecting to have to glue up my boyfriends cracked head with my friend Josje onboard, 50nm away from land. It definitely could have been worse. It goes to show how quickly things could go wrong and it doesn't even necessarily have to be from something super risky or adventu...
2018-01-02 06:33:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone!
We have given away the 60 free tickets we had but if we receive any more, you will be the first to know. If any of you received a ticket but something has changed and you can't make it, let us know and we can pass it on to someone else.
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2017-12-29 16:37:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello to you lovely humans. Riley and I hope you've had a good few days celebrating Christmas and all that jazz! Thanks for being awesome. I hope you like this episode :)
Justyna, 22 years old, was miserable at university in Poland when something incredible happened. She saw an ad online of ...
Merry nearly Christmas to our big Patreon family!! We have a bonus episode for you this week, to say thank you for all of your love and generosity. This video is on the house (free for you).
A big CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR PATRONS Marco-SAN, Riz and Maya, and Kerry Porter!! Can you make it to F...
Not long now until we will be crossing the Atlantic towards the Caribbean and USA. We were considering organising a meet up in Europe before we left the continent until we were invited to attend the London Boat Show to talk publicly about our adventures. The other good news is we were ab...
2017-12-20 15:08:12 +0000 UTC View Post
After the debacle we experienced out at sea, I decided to send everyone off to have some down time away from the boat. I intended to sail solo from Greece to Malta but that was before I met Humaid, a true gentleman and one of the most interesting guys I've come across. After some provisioning and so...
2017-12-20 14:17:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Drifting out to sea, in 40 knots of wind, attached to another vessel by anchor chain. We had to be rescued by the coast guard that turned out to be an extremely old fishing boat. The Meltemi wind was blowing a steady 35 - 40 knots all day, we were safely anchored in a sheltered bay UNTIL... another ...
2017-12-12 00:24:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Woohoo! We made it through the famous Corinth Canal - Greece. The canal is 8m deep and excavated at sea level so it doesn’t need any locks. It took them 12 years to make it and it was first opened in 1893. The canal shaves off a 700km journey around the Peloponnese peninsula and around 11,000 ship...
2017-12-05 01:15:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Well howdy there Kefalonia, how do you do? You might possibly be home to the best beach in Greece! I've never seen a beach quite as blue as you. So fresh. Join us docked in the village of Argostoli on La Vagabonde. Road trippin' around the island and some Kiwis share a very close call during their s...
2017-11-27 22:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Ship Wreck beach, or Smugglers Cove as it’s referred to, has been a place on my bucket list to visit for many years now. This freightliner, the MV Panagiotis ran aground one stormy day in 1980 on the island of Zakinthos - Greece. There are rumours of the ship smuggling things like cigarettes, alco...
2017-11-20 21:24:18 +0000 UTC View Post
We hoisted main, behind us shrank Sicily, eastward bound, cross the Ionian Sea, 4 scoundrels, narry an air of worry, barrel to the brim, bearing north the cardinal buoy that be cardinal sin, Jack be nimble, Riley be quick, bring FOOTAGE OF THOSE WHALES BACK TO THE SHIP! And you, stand fast ye lubber...
2017-11-13 23:09:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeeehaaaaaaa! WE HAVE HAD SUCCESS IN THE MED!!!
Riley landed his first Short Billed Swordfish in the Messina Strait. Looks like we'll have enough fish to last us a good few weeks, having also maybe fed some fellow cruisers 😁🐟 🍻Cheers to catching our first fish on La Vagabonde II. 2017-11-06 23:25:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Meet the most beautiful child mummy in the world, Rosalia Lombardo. She lays near THOUSANDS of preserved humans in the 4 corridors beneath the Capuchin Church - Palermo, Sicily for all to see. Rosalia died of pneumonia on December 6, 1920. Rosalia's father Mario Lombardo was devastated by her death ...
2017-11-03 14:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
We arrive in Sicily and regather ourselves after the jet lag of night shifts at sea. It is always nice to arrive somewhere new. It didn’t take us long to find some friends and these guys were locals who were happy to take us around and show us their island. Stefano and Maricetta were so lovely to ...
2017-10-30 23:08:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys Riley here.
To go on from what I said in the above video I think that the best way to describe it would be calories spent per nautical mile covered - C/NM. Now as I was saying you can spend all day outside walking around trimming sails pulling up the code 0 taking it down agai...
2017-10-29 13:38:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Sailing Sardinia has been an absolute treat. But, it was time to move on. Off to Sicily we go! We provision in a city called Olbia before heading off into the Tyrrhenian Sea. Join us for some random adventures onboard La Vagabonde. I’d like to thank James and Destiny for coming onboard and the sup...
2017-10-23 23:19:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Yes folks!! Something special happened onboard La Vagabonde. We witnessed the first ever proposal on board. Join us in the north of Sardinia as we celebrate good times!
Sending you love from the Mediterranean!
Elayna xo
2017-10-16 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I certainly wasn't expecting to see a FLYING DINGHY fly past my window as I was having a shower onboard. Being out at sea and out of range a lot of the time, we seem to miss out on the launching of the latest technologies/fashion/tv shows.. so we were quite shocked to see such a contraption fly by, ...
2017-10-09 22:09:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Ever heard of the archipelago of La Maddalena? They’re a bunch of secret islands above Sardinia. We hadn’t either really, so we didn’t have much of an idea of what to expect. It was a rough sail getting there with our crew, Daniel, Destiny and James. But it was well worth the trip! Join us in ...
2017-10-02 22:19:25 +0000 UTC View Post