by Cimino | 31 Mar 2010 | Establishment trials, Report to the Sustainable Farming Fund
Open-ground indigenous plants establishment trials Aotearoa leads the world in radiata pine forestry. It also leads the world in radiata pine forestry nursery practices. Consequently, it is surprising that indigenous nursery practices have failed to piggyback on the...
by Boffa Miskell | 31 Mar 2010 | Action plan planning
The following excerpt is the Landscape section of the draft working paper titled Integration. Editor 4.0 Landscape As has been done with environmental issues addressed in earlier working papers, this section provides a discussion on the topic of landscape, the one...
by Cimino | 27 Mar 2010 | Action plan planning
The best has been left till last: Landscape. Landscape is the Mahurangi’s greatest asset. Not only is it a harbourscape of outstanding natural beauty, Mahurangi is unique in having an emphatically rural landscape, in spite of being the first natural harbour north of...
by Cimino | 1 Mar 2010 | Regatta 2011
Regatta Brainstorming 3 March 2010 Venue Mahurangi West Hall Time 7.30–9pm Latest update He was always going to be a hard man to replace. But after 22 years as regatta director, Michael Gordon could be excused for not wishing to serve in the role in his seventieth...
by Cimino | 15 Feb 2010 | Action plan planning, Dredging, Sea-level rise
Avoid ‘dredging’ with access code Dredging, by definition, is a dirty business. Which is why the draft working paper addressing the issue uses the code access. While many will see this as inexcusable political correctness, it is actually entirely sound to define the...
by Keith Salmon | 10 Feb 2010 | Regatta 2010
First published at Mahurangi Rowing The 2010 Master of the Mahurangi race took place at 11 am. The change to an 11 am time was designed to allow rowers to also compete in the sailing races in the afternoon. While this was possibly announced too late to be of...
by Cimino | 7 Feb 2010 | Regatta 2010
It is all too easy to forget. A year is a long time, and resolutions made in the wake of one Mahurangi Regatta can fade—buried by the mountain of minutiae that is the reality of all-too-busy lives. One such lapse was allowing the Bailey bach to be booked for other...
by Cimino | 30 Jan 2010 | Regatta 2010
Event date Saturday 30 January 2010 High tide 07:47 (1.30 m) then 20:03 (1.21 m) It’s thanks to two particular friends of the Mahurangi. A bus will be shuttling back and forth along Ridge Road, and volunteers and prize-giving and dance – goers will be ferried across...
by Cimino | 29 Jan 2010 | Regatta 2010
Event date Saturday 30 January 2010 High tide 07:47 (1.30 m) then 20:03 (1.21 m) This afternoon, with some trepidation, the various marquees will go up. The vastly variable conditions that makes long-range weather forecasting interesting, offer no real respite for...
