Happy days. 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, years ago. Join us for the Bimini Shuffle over to the Bahamas. The wind and ...
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. Also, through this video you can FIND OUT THE SEX ...
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...
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...
7 Reasons why NOT to go on a cruise ship. We could think of a dozen more reasons why not to go on a cruise ship but we thought we'd try and keep it short (plus it was about 10000 degrees inside La Vagabonde with no air conditioning... maybe that's ONE plus...
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...
Here's how to anchor you boat. We hope you are following along with our "Sailing Basics Guide" https://www.sailing-lavagabonde.com/guide
In this video we show you exactly how to anchor your boat so that you can get a good night sleep which you won't get ...
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 procedu...
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A lot of people wonder how we find food when we've been away from civilisation for some time. Well, you guessed it. We go spearfishing. We try and shop at local farme...
Join us on the ocean, as we cross the Exuma Bank and continue island hopping our way west. We're in a little bit of a hurry to get to Florida to meet our Patrons, so let's hope these coral heads remain at least .2m beneath the rudders! Looks like the coral...
Well this was pretty incredible. It isn't every day that you are visited by two friends, in a plane. https://www.youtube.com/steveo1kinevo and https://www.youtube.com/thecandourist join us onboard La Vagabonde for a few days of spearfishing, living off the...
I was warned. Various cruisers that we had met who 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 ...
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Join us for a catch and cook here in the turquoise waters of the open Atlantic Ocean. We had a calm enough day to take our deflated dinghy out and have a go...
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 basic...
We go through this kind of stuff all the time. Today though things were a little more extreme. Having to schedule an appointment in with the embassy months prior, printing pages and pages of information basically about the numbers we have previously been a...
Join us for some bad weather in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Not much fun punching into 35+ knots for the 4 inexperienced sailors onboard. We then say goodbye to our guests and sit down to have a chat to you about the most recent series of unfortunate eve...
Over the last 4 years we've been sailing around the world, we've managed to pull together our top 5 scariest moments at sea. Pirates, man overboard, spinal injuries and gale force winds. Join us for a few scary stories onboard... Cheers, Elayna and Riles.
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The first two potential hurricanes of the season Hurricane Gordon and Hurricane Florence are inbound. La Vagabonde is currently right in the hurricane belt. A lot of people have been wondering about our hurricane plan as a few storms have been popping up. ...
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... We didn't know it was world class diving in the Turks...
Join us for another catch and cook here in the sunny Caribbean as we deep fry some conch. It's our first attempt at cooking conch and we had an absolute blast doing it. I'm sure for those of you who are familiar with cooking this sea snail, you're keen to ...
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 kil...
Hoisting the main is a fairly easy task but there are certainly right and wrong ways to be doing it. We hope you are following along with our "Sailing Basics Guide" https://www.sailing-lavagabonde.com/guide
In this video we show you some of the problems t...
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 nee...
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 navig...
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