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...
by Cimino | 27 Jan 2010 | Regatta 2011
Updated Friday 28 January 2011 3.17 pm The decision wouldn’t be made until shortly after at 6 am. On the morning of the Mahurangi Regatta, a ‘cancellation committee’ of three would phone each other and discuss the weather forecast just intoned by a government...
by Cimino | 27 Jan 2010 | Regatta 2010
Event date Saturday 30 January 2010 High tide 07:47 (1.30 m) then 20:03 (1.21 m) Currently no rain is forecast. But because this will likely continue to change back and forth before Saturday evening, the Rodney Times has been given a ‘watch this space’ story. The...
by Cimino | 26 Jan 2010 | Regatta 2010
Event date Saturday 30 January 2010 High tide 07:47 (1.30 m) then 20:03 (1.21 m) The bad news story had been prepared first. The consistently worsening forecasts had suggested that it was the most likely scenario that would need addressing: That the dance would be...
by Cimino | 25 Jan 2010 | Regatta 2010
Event date Saturday 30 January 2010 High tide 07:47 (1.30 m) then 20:03 (1.21 m) Stubbs Village Butchery is under new ownership. The new owners, Bill Brass and Richard Pennings, have just saved the bacon of the Mahurangi Regatta dance. Two years ago, the previous...
