We left on the 12th of september 2021, from the little town of Locmiquélic, in Brittany. Vagabond is a Jeanneau sailing vessel, a Sun Legende 41, drawn by Douglas Peterson, and built in 1987. It took 2 years and a half to get the boat ready for this long family sailing trip around the world.

We cross the Bay of Biscay, explore Galicia, the coast of Portugal, Porto Santo and Madeira, then the Canary Islands, and we arrive in Dakar. We touch the Sine Saloum, and plunge into the sublime Casamance river, before reaching Cape Verde, from where we prepare for the transatlantic crossing. We land in Guadeloupe, then in Martinique, where the birth of Suliac make the crew bigger.

New departure in May 2022 to reach Colombia via Bonaire. We discover the San Blas islands before crossing the Panama Canal. And it’s the big navigation across the Pacific Ocean! Our goal: the Marquesas. We travel through the French Polynesian islands, from the Tuamotu to the Society Islands, during 9 months. We end up spending lots of time in Maupiti and Maupihaa. Then starts a new journey: the way back home.

Vagabond continues its long road west: after the Western Samoa and Wallis we leave Polynesia to enter Melanesia. Our cruise to Fiji is amazing… and we go on with Vanuatu, then a secret atoll in the Coral Sea, and finally Cairns, Australia, where our long Pacific route ends.

New pace: Erwan starts a new job and leaves Vagabond for 2 months. Thereafter, he will alternately be onboard for 5 weeks and away for 5 weeks. Margot takes Vagabond and its crew to Lizard Island, the Torres Strait and Darwin, helped by backpackers she meets along the way. Then begins the great crossing of Indonesia: Kupang, Komodo, Lombok, Borneo, Belitung and Batam. The family gathers again in Singapore!

The family crew travels up to Malaysia then Thailand. What’s next ? Well, step by step!