by Cimino | 23 Dec 2008 | Heritage vessels, Regatta 2009
For a while there, the vendors had inveigled their way in. Invariably, there is somebody looking to cash in on the event, but it was the strongly-held view of the generation that revived the Mahurangi Regatta that it should be a good old-fashioned...
by Cimino | 23 Feb 2008 | Community, Regatta 2008
A number of times the Mahurangi Regatta has had to be cancelled. On one occasion, controversially, it was the weather before the regatta, rather than on the day, that caused the cancellation of the shoreside regatta—the unprecedentedly rain-soaked regional park...
by Cimino | 20 Feb 2008 | Regatta 2008
Shoreside regatta director honoured – What time’s the tide? Even in 1977, it was inescapable. Having revived the regatta, after it had lapsed for three decades, Mahurangi Actionestablished 1974, as Friends of the Mahurangi found it had a tiger by the tail—an event...
by Cimino | 2 Feb 2008 | Regatta 2008, Regatta history
An email from the Weiti Boating Club nicely summarised the sea change: Weiti Boating Club is racing to Mahurangi tonight and we plan to have our club barbecue and prize-giving ashore on Saturday evening at Scotts Landing, as we have done in past years. We realise that...
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...
