Mahurangi Regatta programme
– 2023 regatta cancelled

Teak Construction, principal sponsor
solidly resourcing the Mahurangi Regatta
for the sixth year of a nine-year undertaking.

2023 Mahurangi Regatta cancelled in its entirety!

2023 Regatta Day: Saturday 28 January

Celebrating the 46th anniversary of the regatta revival by Mahurangi Action, and Teak Construction’s 8th year, as principal regatta sponsor.
Sailing organiser, since 1990, is the Mahurangi Cruising Club.

23rd  Edition: Available from New World Warkworth, Paper Plus Warkworth, Gull Service Station Snells Beach, and Matakana Village Books. cover Mahurangi Cruising Club

Friday Night-Race to Mahurangi—cancelled, due to extreme conditions forecast

3 pm

Classic A and Modern Classics

3.05 pm

Classic B and Woollacott Series

3.10 pm

B Division – Hyslop Cup

6 pm

A Division – Barometer Trophy

Sailing Instructions

Anchorage note

Mahurangi Regatta

46th anniversary of regatta revival by Mahurangi Action
165th anniversary of the first-recorded Mahurangi Regatta
Generally held at Sullivans Bay*
*Due to the consensus of forecasts for strong easterly wind, heavy swell, and extreme rainfall, shoreside events are cancelled, for 2023.
High tide 1.01 am (2.75 m above mean low-water spring tides)
Low tide 7.09 am (0.46 m)
High tide 1.24 pm (2.85 m)
Low tide 7.44 am (0.44 m)

9–9.30 am

Registrations for Classic Launch Parade now online, or muster off Scotts Landing at 10.15 am—course diagram.

important note

Entries for sailing events noted when, a week out, the forecast was for strong easterlies. In the event, all shoreside entries were taken, it is standard practice, at Sullivans Baynow taken by Mahurangi Cruising Club online only, by midnight 26 January 2023

9–11 am

Launching of trailered boats entered in regatta, at Sullivans Bay—cancelled due to extreme conditions forecast

10.20 am

Augustin sea kayak race—cancelled due to extreme conditions forecast

10.25 am

Master of the Mahurangi—cancelled due to extreme conditions forecast

10.45 am

Classic Launch Parade—cancelled due to extreme conditions forecast

11 am

Shoreside events would normally begin—cancelled due to extreme conditions forecast

Sailing events cancelled due to extreme conditions forecast:

2023 Notice of Regatta

Sailing Instructions

Courses

Courses for strong easterlies

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12.40 pm

Te Haupa Trophy

Mahurangi Regional Park and all 28 other region parks are smoke free. Next challenge, fossil-free, might not be quite so easy.

12.50 pm

Sailing dinghy classes – Frostbites, Mistrals and Zephyrs—cancelled due to extreme conditions forecast

1.00 pm

A-Class

1.20 pm

Mahurangi Cup, L-Classmullet boats, and Traditional Spirit Trophy—cancelled due to extreme conditions forecast

1.40 pm

Mid-Century Classics – modern classics—cancelled due to extreme conditions forecast

12.30 pm–1.30 pm

Sand sculpture—cancelled due to extreme conditions forecast

1.30 pm

Shoreside events would normally resume: water run, swimming, kayak, open (sit-on) kayak etc.—cancelled due to extreme conditions forecast

Regatta-free regatta: The beach and picnic area at Sullivans Bay, at all times, is off-limits to dogs, as is the grassed area at Scotts Landing, but only during booked events such as the regatta. icon Mahurangi Magazine

3.30 pm–4.30 pm

Retrieval of trailered boats entered in regatta, at Sullivans Bay—cancelled due to extreme conditions forecast

3.30 pm

Tug-of-war—cancelled due to extreme conditions forecast

Mahurangi Regatta prize giving and dance—cancelled due to extreme conditions forecast

Held at Scotts Landing—cancelled due to extreme conditions forecast
Revived by Mahurangi Action in 2004 in the form of a regatta ball as the grand finale of Warkworth’s 150th celebrations, then as a prize-giving dance—the traditional format—from the following year. In 2011, ex-tropical cyclone Wilma cancelled the regatta, and in 2012 a combination of mediocre weather and a lack of financial support precluded the event, but from 2014, largely thanks to the support of Auckland Council’s regional events fund, and finally from 2016 thanks to the long-term commitment of a significant sponsor—Teak Construction—the future of the prize-giving dance, and the regatta itself, is now secure.

Also Serving the Volunteers: Rather than drive 72 kilometres there and back to Scotts Landing, in all kinds of diabolical anniversary-weekend traffic, folk volunteering at Sullivans Bay—from this regatta hence—get to nip across in style, aboard the workboat J Barry Ferguson—and vice versa, the volunteers from Scotts Landing. drone image Marek Planka

Free use of gas barbecues—cancelled due to extreme conditions forecast

There is no longer a cash bar nor burgers for sale. From 2013, the format returned to that of the prize-giving dance that prevailed before the regatta lapsed during World War II, when it was on a bring-your-own basis. This makes the event much less financially risky, particularly when wild and/or wet weather intervenes, as it did, spectacularly, in 2011.

8 am

Free morning-to-midnight Scotts Landing regatta shuttle would normally operate—cancelled due to extreme conditions forecast.

6.30 pm

Prize-giving dance would normally commence, with the West City Jazz Orchestra—cancelled due to extreme conditions forecast

7.30 pm

Prize giving——cancelled due to extreme conditions forecast

midnight

Last run by free Scotts Landing regatta shuttlebus—cancelled due to extreme conditions forecast.

Seasonal plea for volunteers sign annotation Mahurangi Magazine

Sunday morning Mahurangi Return Race—probably cancelled due to extreme conditions forecast

10.30 am

Classic B and Modern B

11 am

Classic A and Modern A

Sailing Instructions

 

Sunday morning-after-the-regatta breakfast

Low tide 8.02 am (0.61 metres above mean low-water spring tides)

9 am

Morning-after: Panmure Yacht & Boating Club and Richmond Yacht Club normally meet for breakfast, and help with the clean up—plenty of barbecues would have been on hand for other clubs, crews, and helpers!—cancelled due to extreme conditions forecast

 
Future ‘Up the Mahu!’ The 2020s will see only one more good Up-the-Mahu tide—2026. This underlines the significance of the Mahurangi River Restoration Trust’s work to restore all-tide navigability to the tidehead town of Warkworth—central government did step in to support this community-funded initiative, but, as so often the case, the project needs that little bit more.