by Cimino | 20 Feb 2013 | Regatta 2013, Results
Results of the 2013 Mahurangi Regatta, to hand: A Class Trophy Line honoursRanger 1stW Leslie Trophy Thelma 2ndRawene 3rdRanger 4thAchernar 5thPrize 6thMoana 7thIorangi 8thWaitangi 9thFrances 10thTawera Frostbites Times not recorded. Due to confusion emanating from...
by Cimino | 17 Feb 2013 | Farm-forestry trail
Corrected 24 February 2013 It may be because the landscape resembles a South Seas Lake District. Or it may simply be a universal urge, but locals have long dreamed and talked of creating a network of trails in the harbourscape of outstanding natural beauty that is the...
by Cimino | 6 Feb 2013 | Regatta 2013
The big band was back with sweet vengeance. Following a two-year hiatus initiated by an ex-tropical cyclone and prolonged, in 2012, by mediocre weather combined with a lack of funding, the Prohibition Big Band line-up on Saturday night was strongest, tightest and most...
by Cimino | 23 Jan 2013 | Media missing in climate action
For two decades it was the Great War. Then, with the outbreak of World War II, it became the First World War. As a descriptive title, First World War says a great deal more than Great War. It would be even more descriptive, but less eloquent, as the First...
by Cimino | 21 Jan 2013 | Regatta 2013
It is currently kinder for folk with sleep-aboard craft. That is, the Mahurangi Regatta in its current format, than for those whose craft weren’t primarily designed with a good night’s sleep in mind. If, after launching at Sullivans Bay and sailing in the regatta, the...
by Mahurangi Action | 20 Jan 2013 | Regatta 2013
Event date Saturday 26 January 2013 High tide 07:37 (0.95 m above mean level of sea) Low tide 13:46 (-0.79 m) High tide 19:45 (0.84 m) Mahurangi Regatta Generally* held at Sullivans Bay *In the event of strong easterly wind, sailing entries will be taken at Scotts...
by Cimino | 19 Dec 2012 | Regatta 2013
Rodney Local Board would certainly want its $5000 back. In the event, that is, of a repeat of a visitation by an ex-tropical cyclone the likes of Wilma, which cancelled the 2011 Mahurangi Regatta. Against the five killed by Tropical Cyclone Evan in Samoa and massive...
by Cimino | 12 Dec 2012 | Sea-level rise
In the last year, the tide of public opinion has turned. Americans now largely accept global warming as a clear and present danger, largely as a result of the record-breaking drought that is affecting most of the United States. A record minimum Arctic sea ice extent,...
by Jackie Liggins and Annie McMillan | 29 Nov 2012 | Obituary
Ōpahi and its bright stars Read by Jackie Liggins at the funeral of John Timmins, 1950–2012 I would like to share something of John Timmins’ beloved Ōpahi. At the entrance to Mahurangi Harbour, only a conversation away from Auckland, Ōpahi is a small bay of about...
