by Cimino | 24 Jan 2008 | Regatta 2008
Recreating the traditional picnic regatta, was the vision. When Mahurangi Actionestablished 1974 as Friends of the Mahurangi revived the Mahurangi Regatta, in 1977, the elders were adamant it was to be a traditional picnic regatta, where the only thing provided was...
by Cimino | 20 Jan 2008 | Regatta 2008
Mahurangi Regatta Saturday 26 January Launching 9.00–11.00 am Retrieval 3.30–4.30 pm High tide 10.54 am 1.29 m Except at the regatta, boat launching from trailers at Sullivans is not permitted. Most appreciate that that is the case, and in two senses of the...
by Mahurangi Action | 20 Jan 2008 | Regatta 2008
Event date 26 January 2008 High tide 10:54 (1.29 m) Beach events Friends of the Mahurangi Sailing events Mahurangi Cruising Club Mahurangi Regatta Generally* held at Sullivans Bay *In the event of a strong easterly forecast, at Scotts Landing 9.00 Entries (for sailing...
by Cimino | 19 Jan 2008 | Regatta 2008
A week away from the Mahurangi Regatta, the venue looks set to stay at Sullivans Bay. With the wind rising this morning and 35 knots and heavy rain forecast to peak tomorrow night, it is somewhat reassuring to see that MetVUW’s charts for 26 January, regatta...
by Cimino | 18 Jan 2008 | Regatta 2060, Regional governance
Speculative and unhelpful. These are the words the Honourable Peter Salmon QC used when chastising the New Zealand Herald for its front page announcing Auckland is to become a super city with a London-style mayor with executive powers. In May 2008, at the Royal...
by Cimino | 13 Jan 2008 | Regatta 2008
Updated 20 January, with gratitude In truth, most who toil at the Mahurangi Regatta are regulars in the spirit of Clive Dunn’s Dad’s Army character: ‘I should like to be the one that volunteers, Suh!’ But the difference between it being a breeze or a bother, for those...
by Cimino | 12 Jan 2008 | Four waters
Wastewater plant upgrade not exactly nothing Many reading A Muddy Brown Colour would have suspected, of course, that Rodney District Council was in fact doing something about its notoriously leaky old sewerage system. Most, however, would be astonished to learn the...
by Bruce Eirena | 12 Jan 2008 | Four waters
Letter I read A Muddy Brown Colour today and share the concern expressed about farm and urban pollution that flows into the Mahurangi. I also thought however, that it is worth pointing out one factual error (it might be useful if confronting the council etc.), which...
by Jo Floyd | 12 Jan 2008 | Four waters
Veolia Systems has won the contract to supply a peak flow treatment system, which will be installed and commissioned before December 2008, as required by the new resource consent. Also associated with the upgrade will be a Timbertank (ex Tindall’s Bay reservoir),...
