I remember her back in the 90s when NZ had a electricity crisis, she was tied up to Aotea Quay with large electrical cables coming out of her rail deck feeding the grid.
Many fond memories of sailing on Arahura as a kid, back when she was the flagship of the Interislander fleet and before my family moved to the States. I'm guessing you sourced some of the material from the Wikipedia article, as I contributed quite a bit to that page
Well done your Arahura cook strait rail ferry on you tube is fantastic. Being a cook strait ferry enthusiast, I joy ride these ferry's hard out when i used to holiday in picton on purpose to do my interislander ferry crossings all days long . I Love the Kaitaki ferry and Aratere ferry, The Arahura was my all time favourite ferry to which I chased many stormy crossings on the Arahura. I remember on one crossing the cook strait was rough as. The cook strait had swollen and extremely choppy seas. I sat up the front on one of the chairs fixed to the floor, to get the full action of cook strait on a stormy wild ride. The Arahura's motion was like on a giant jet boat hitting the choppy water peaks hard out, but not like a jet boat on a river that the hull touched the bottom, LOL .
A workhorse indeed. Not normally a fan of the looks of these European and Asian ferries, but Arahura was quite the looker for herself, far more so than her running mates and eventual replacement. Interesting story. Nice job. :)
Thank you so much for watching, I’m glad you enjoyed it! I don’t mind the looks of Kaitaki, the glass atrium at the rear certainly helps with that though.
Great summary video of the fine vessel.. I've been on this a few times and pretty sure I've thrown up a couple too haha. Thanks for kindling my mostly fond childhood memories!
0:00 I remember the sound of the other ferry, the "Arahunga" engines underwater. If you were diving the South Coast or inner harbour the slow regular "thud thud" was unique to the Arahunga. You could hear it from kilometers away.
Glad you enjoyed it! If you and interested, check out my video on the sinking of Wahine as it’s sadly been forgotten by the algorithm despite being a better video in my opinion.
My Father crewed this ship from It's first crossing in1983 until he retired in 1990. I wonder now if that near capsize had anything to do with his decision, because he retired a couple of years early. He passed not long after sadly.
In 2002, she was refurbished and her road vehicle deck was extended to accommodate an extra 23 cars. She was docked at Davenport Naval Dockyard up in Auckland.
@@wallacealex4638 g'day Alex I hope you weren't afended by my correction I live down at French Pass where PELORUS JACK took the ships through its a big thing there. mistakes Happen shit happens 👍
By the way the Arahura was a big part in my life I was so gutted when she went for scrap such a wonderful ship took so manny people to and fro and the ending she got I think was very un dignified. But it was just a big pice of steel and theys things happen 😪
All of those facts are completely right. She was an amazing ship. I must have travelled on her a thousand of those 52 thousand times!.... Did u know she could power Wellington with her engines if the power was cut by an earthquake!....
Nice work Alex. Lots of good information. Nice to meet you last week. Janet
Fab doco.
I remember her back in the 90s when NZ had a electricity crisis, she was tied up to Aotea Quay with large electrical cables coming out of her rail deck feeding the grid.
They had better capabilities back in the day -
Many fond memories of sailing on Arahura as a kid, back when she was the flagship of the Interislander fleet and before my family moved to the States. I'm guessing you sourced some of the material from the Wikipedia article, as I contributed quite a bit to that page
Well done your Arahura cook strait rail ferry on you tube is fantastic. Being a cook strait ferry enthusiast, I joy ride these ferry's hard out when i used to holiday in picton on purpose to do my interislander ferry crossings all days long . I Love the Kaitaki ferry and Aratere ferry, The Arahura was my all time favourite ferry to which I chased many stormy crossings on the Arahura. I remember on one crossing the cook strait was rough as. The cook strait had swollen and extremely choppy seas. I sat up the front on one of the chairs fixed to the floor, to get the full action of cook strait on a stormy wild ride. The Arahura's motion was like on a giant jet boat hitting the choppy water peaks hard out, but not like a jet boat on a river that the hull touched the bottom, LOL .
Ive only been on the Arahura 3 times or so but she was a mighty fine sailing ship especially in heavy swells, sad to see the way she went.
A workhorse indeed. Not normally a fan of the looks of these European and Asian ferries, but Arahura was quite the looker for herself, far more so than her running mates and eventual replacement. Interesting story. Nice job. :)
Thank you so much for watching, I’m glad you enjoyed it! I don’t mind the looks of Kaitaki, the glass atrium at the rear certainly helps with that though.
Glad that you liked her.
I worked on her, as a shipbuilder apprentice, at Aalborg Vaerft A/S, Denmark.
Great summary video of the fine vessel.. I've been on this a few times and pretty sure I've thrown up a couple too haha. Thanks for kindling my mostly fond childhood memories!
0:00 I remember the sound of the other ferry, the "Arahunga" engines underwater. If you were diving the South Coast or inner harbour the slow regular "thud thud" was unique to the Arahunga. You could hear it from kilometers away.
Thank the algorithm for showing me this video. It was surprisingly good.
Glad you enjoyed it! If you and interested, check out my video on the sinking of Wahine as it’s sadly been forgotten by the algorithm despite being a better video in my opinion.
My Father crewed this ship from It's first crossing in1983 until he retired in 1990. I wonder now if that near capsize had anything to do with his decision, because he retired a couple of years early. He passed not long after sadly.
In 2002, she was refurbished and her road vehicle deck was extended to accommodate an extra 23 cars. She was docked at Davenport Naval Dockyard up in Auckland.
The Hura's pax capacity was around the 1000 mark before she got the chop, when it was significantly reduced.
1050 passenger until refit to 550
Such a Beautiful vessel to travel on, it was sad to see her go. I've never sailed in that mongrel bathtub Aratere since she nearly capsized either
Aratere isn't so bad, worked on her for a month or two last year.
FYI PELORUS jack wasn't white it was a dolphin that just escorted ships through French pass
Oh whoops, my mistake. Thanks for the correction!
@@wallacealex4638 g'day Alex I hope you weren't afended by my correction I live down at French Pass where PELORUS JACK took the ships through its a big thing there. mistakes Happen shit happens 👍
By the way the Arahura was a big part in my life I was so gutted when she went for scrap such a wonderful ship took so manny people to and fro and the ending she got I think was very un dignified. But it was just a big pice of steel and theys things happen 😪
@@richardgatchell2523 of course I’m not offended. I’m happy to learn from my mistakes!
All of those facts are completely right. She was an amazing ship. I must have travelled on her a thousand of those 52 thousand times!.... Did u know she could power Wellington with her engines if the power was cut by an earthquake!....
Oh I didn’t know that. That’s awesome!