Oraka

Oraka is a flush deck, cutter rigged South African built Endurance 37. A beautiful boat with clipper bow and bowsprit and counter stern. She was sailed to Australia by her original owners, then purchased and sailed here and renamed Oraka. Her current owner is Karl Spranger, and she is registered in Jersey.

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Posted: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 - 15:21

Cleared in to Opua this morning. Back to work tomorrow!

Posted: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 - 09:15

Wind Dropped away overnight again. Motor Sailing now close hauled to head wind. Received "The Rock FM" on the radio this morning :) About 100nm to go to Opua

Posted: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 - 07:24

Wind Dropped away overnight. Motor Sailing. Crew now hiding under blankets..what a frenchie.. :) Awesome Meteor shower last night. Only 200miles to go to Opua.

Posted: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 - 08:12

Went through the front yesterday afternoon, a bit of rain. Not much wind today. Getting colder and colder...the skipper is hiding under his blankets, what a kiwi.

Posted: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 - 07:51

No wind last night. Motored since 8pm. Rain at about 4am. Motor off now, sailing again with 10knt NW breeze. Its getting cold...down to 20*C!! Brrrrrr.

Posted: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 - 08:18

No wind last night, starting the motor this morning

Posted: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 - 11:15

Great Sailing. Wind dropping through the night. Skys clearing. Skipper made a fantastic Banana cake that got mysteriously eaten by what i suspect were french pestilence during the night..

Posted: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 - 07:36

Great Sailing. Finally got the Frenchie out of bed after her bout of initial Mal de Mer.

Posted: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 - 07:42

Nice sailing conditions. Wind dropped overnight no nothing, but picked up early this morning.

Posted: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 - 07:42

Departed Nukualofa 10am Yesterday. Great breeze/sea for first day. looks like a 120ml day! All is good

Posted: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 - 07:45

Pre departure test, Leaving Nukualofa this afternoon.

Posted: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 - 19:03

Automated update

Posted: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 - 07:12

We arre here!!! Sitting on quarantine dock in Nukualofa

Posted: Sun, 9 Jul 2017 - 06:39

Lovely calm night of motor sailing. 'Eua sighted at daybreak about 25 miles away. Hoping to be tied up on quarantine dock by approx 1700 this afternoon.

Posted: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 - 11:54

Northerlies dropped away to nothing overnight, so still just motoring on a glassy rolly sea. Absolutely Lovely today, refitted the ventilators as the cabin temp got up over 30*C, I saw a whale blow

Posted: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 - 07:36

Started engine yesterday morning, ran all day/night with <5knt Easterly. Then it shifted to 10+Knt Northerly at daybreak so tacked over to run approx. East. Myriam very excited to see her first flying fish of the trip.

Posted: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 - 07:06

No wind all night. Very slow progress. All is well.

Posted: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 - 08:03

Another slow night, wind still light from the SSE for the most part. Had a strong w/sw blow come through at about 6am with an air temp drop of about 20*C! it was odd putting all the warm and woolly

Posted: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 - 11:33

Slow lazy night with messy seas left over from the front, and also a large SE swell annoyingly knocking the wind out of the sails every minute or so. Lovely day tho. water temp is up to 23*!! Slow

Posted: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 - 13:03

The front hit us early last night with 20-25knt northerlies, then lots of rain thru the night, and then a swing around to 30nt ne this morning, and now 10-15 west and the rain has stopped and blue

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