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: Sun, 2 Jul 2017 - 08:24

Wind died and swung round in front of us about midnight, so dropped headsails and hove to on main to wait it out. Halo round moon last night, so forcast front is surely on its way. Woke up to high

Posted: Sat, 1 Jul 2017 - 08:03

Made good time yesterday with brisk SSE, then lost wind overnight. Has filled in again this morning with more low cloud about than yesterday. Crossed the dateline, YAY!

Posted: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 - 09:00

Fantastic sailing thru the night! Perfect sea state and wind conditions had us on a broad reach boosting along at over 7knts for a while! very happy with the old girl. By midnight we were down to the

Posted: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 - 10:39

Bit of a slow night, wind dropped right away to very light from the southwest, but still with substantial swell/chop, so slow going. Wind has picked back up to nearly usable this morning.

Posted: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 - 10:18

We've got wind! and not just from Myriams' cooking :) Got the big boy out up the front, and a couple of reefs in the main. Very pleasant sailing.

Posted: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 - 07:48

All good. Slow going overnight. not much wind. Motor Sailed thru the night... still rollin rollin rollin..

Posted: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 - 16:54

All good. Slow going today tho with not much wind from right up our jacksee.. rollin rollin rollin..

Posted: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 - 07:33

Lovely Sailing. Great first night out.

Posted: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 - 11:08

All ready to go, have decided to delay departure until next week due to developing low forcast to form in our path.

Posted: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 - 15:54

Systems test. on dock in Opua. Departing tomorrow

Posted: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 - 15:52

Arrived in opua on Thursday morning. Great trip. Thanks to Gulf Harbour Radio and yit.

Posted: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 - 08:45

Posted: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 - 08:36

220nm to opua

Posted: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 - 08:36

Posted: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 - 08:39

Posted: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 - 08:31

got the wind at 10pm after motoring all day

Posted: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 - 08:31

Posted: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 - 08:39

Posted: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 - 08:37

Posted: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 - 08:38

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