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channel run by Australian video bloggers Riley Whitelum and Elayna Carausu along with their children Lenny and Darwin. The channel documents the couple's life aboard their sailing tri-maran ''La Vagabonde''. , the channel had over 1.85 million subscribers and is the most popular sailing YouTube channel. In November 2019, they received significant media attention for sailing

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onboard ''La Vagabonde'' from

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History

The channel was founded in 2014 after Whitelum and Carausu met in Greece. The couple sustains their sailing by producing a weekly video blog on YouTube that is also funded by income from the

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. The series began aboard their Beneteau Cyclades sailboat. Following the success of their channel, they negotiated a discounted price with the company Outremer for the

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that they sailed from 2017 until 2022. Their next sailboat, a Rapido 60 trimaran, was launched on 2023. Between 2014 and 2022, the pair sailed over combined, including four

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crossings and one

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crossing. 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.

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