Nice work Alex. Lots of good information. Nice to meet you last week. Janet

Well done on a very informative video of the Arahura. Sailed her many times, for work and on holidays, and this was my favourite of all the ferries.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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!

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. :)

Fab doco.

Thank the algorithm for showing me this video. It was surprisingly good.

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.

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

FYI PELORUS jack wasn't white it was a dolphin that just escorted ships through French pass

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!....