by Cimino | 30 Jan 2018 | Regatta 2018
Since the Mahurangi Regatta Ball, in 2004when it had been suggested that a restroom trailer would be more suitable than builder’s toilets, given the ball format, it has been the dream to have salubrious toilets. To be unabashedly sexist, where the women can chat and...
by Cimino | 26 Jan 2018 | Regatta 2018
As regular readers of the Mahurangi Magazine well know, this writer won’t be content until a cross-harbour ferry is instituted. This would benefit locals, Mahurangi Coastal Trail walkers, and be an absolute boon and delight generally, but particularly during the...
by Cimino | 26 Jan 2018 | Regatta 2019
2019 Regatta Day Saturday 26 January C elebrating the 42nd anniversary of the regatta revival by Mahurangi Action, and the first ‘Up the Mahu!’ Race organiser, since 1990, is the Mahurangi Cruising Club. Friday Night-Race to Mahurangi 3 pm Classic A and Modern...
by Cimino | 25 Jan 2018 | Regatta 2018
Incredibly, only two do it: Panmure Yacht and Boating Club, and Richmond. Even the race organiser, the Mahurangi Cruising Club, misses out on the best thing after the Mahurangi Regatta. It started small, with the organising clubs sharing the chore of struggling a...
by Cimino | 21 Jan 2018 | Regatta 2018
The Mahurangi Regatta is the wondrous, joyous outcome of many, occasionally disparate, plans and agendas of volunteer, council, and commercial entities, of which the most prominent, after this year’s event, will probably be Boating New Zealand; the regatta is slated...
by Borislav Penchev | 9 Jan 2018 | Regatta 2018
Dear secret admirers, friends and members of the Mahurangi Cruising Club, best wishes for a happy New Year on the water and elsewhere. Many of you provided positive and constructive, and also critical, feedback from the 2017 Mahurangi Regatta. Particularly helpful has...