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 | 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 | 31 Oct 2012 | Regatta 2013
In 2011 it was Cyclone Wilma. In respect to this summer’s tropical cyclones, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research reports that meteorological forecasting centres are predicting: …near average or slightly above average numbers for many islands [are]...
by Christine Rose | 5 Feb 2012 | Regatta 2012
Art and the environment make a beautiful combination. This was certainly the case with the regatta Mahurangi Action Sand Sculpture competition. The setting was perfect. Families picnicked beside the golden beach. The ‘Mahurangi-blue’ sea gently lapped at our feet and...
