{"id":497176,"date":"2026-06-26T20:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T20:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/497176\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T20:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T20:58:09","slug":"john-john-florence-gives-a-tour-of-the-vela-the-catamaran-he-calls-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/497176\/","title":{"rendered":"John John Florence Gives a Tour of the ‘Vela,’ the Catamaran He Calls Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

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John John Florence calls the Vela home these days. Photo: YouTube\/\/Screenshot<\/p>\n

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John John Florence is living life right. Meaning, of course, that he\u2019s living life the way he sees fit. And the way he sees fit is to live a life full of travel, exploration, and adventure. That lifestyle, however, is tough to do properly if you\u2019ve got a regular old house with a foundation stuck to the Earth, so John\u2019s solution was simple, if not reminiscent of a mid-life crises: buy a boat, quit his job, and sail the oceans blue. And recently, Huckberry, purveyor of clothing and media content, put together a little film<\/a> exploring the nooks and crannies of the Vela<\/a>, John\u2019s 48-foot gunboat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat does a three-time World Champion do when he\u2019s not chasing the world\u2019s most dangerous swells?\u201d Huckberry asks. \u201cHe\u2019s likely offshore, navigating the Pacific with his family aboard Vela, a high-performance catamaran engineered for the ultimate off-grid life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Huckberry Homes<\/a>, a fantastic series of films looking at interesting houses owned by interesting people around the world, met up with the Florence family while they were in Fiji. It\u2019s a lot more than just a boat. Everything has a place and everything is in its place. It\u2019s designed for plenty of storage with plenty of performance, and although it might be cramped, it suits the task at hand perfectly.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore than just a boat, this is a masterclass in intentional living,\u201d Huckberry wrote. \u201cFrom the technical navigation deck to the gear-packed hulls and the joys of raising a family in the middle of the ocean, John John shows us what it means to truly live in the elements.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John John Florence calls the Vela home these days. Photo: YouTube\/\/Screenshot John John Florence is living life right.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[248627,248628,5126,248629,111,139,69,145,100485],"class_list":["post-497176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-huckberry","tag-huckberry-homes","tag-john","tag-john-john-florence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology","tag-vela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}