by Cimino | 25 Oct 2015 | About the Regatta
Re-imagining the Mahurangi Regatta beyond coastal trail That the Mahurangi Regatta is a regional event is beyond dispute. The venerable event’s region-wide appeal is now backed up by data, collected at this year’s regatta by Auckland Council following its decision to...
by Cimino | 1 Feb 2015 | Regatta 2016
It will be well worth the extra week’s wait. Well, only six days, actually, as Auckland Anniversary Day is celebrated on the last Monday in January, even if that falls on 1 February—the logic of this rule for setting the date of an upcoming Mahurangi Regatta, possibly...
by Cimino | 29 Jan 2015 | Regatta 2015, Results
Results of the 2015 Mahurangi Regatta, to hand: A-Class Trophy Line honours Prize 1st Prize 2nd Rainbow 3rd Tawera 4th Waitangi 5th Iorangi 6th Frances 7th Thelma 8th Achernar Frostbites 1st Kiteroa 2nd Green hull 3rd Rapscalion 4th Tawhiri 5th Amber 6th Incognito 7th...
by Mahurangi Action | 15 Jan 2015 | Regatta 2015
Helping push Auckland’s 175th anniversary boat out Regatta Day Saturday 24 January 2015 Friday Night-Race to Mahurangi 3 pm Classic A and Modern Classics 3.05 pm Classic B Sailing Instructions Mahurangi Regatta Generally held at Sullivans Bay* *In the event of...
by Cimino | 25 Nov 2014 | Regatta 2015
It might have been better had Lieutenant-Governor William Hobson named the entire country Auckland; and Tāmaki Makaurau, Bourke. That way, Aucklanders might have long-since rejected their town’s colonially imposed name in favour of reverting to the indigenous title of...
by Ronald H Locker | 20 Nov 2014 | Regatta history
Mahurangi Regatta 1865 comparable with Cowes Dr Ronald H Locker writes in Jade River : A History of the Mahurangi: The first Mahurangi Regatta is not remembered, but Joseph Gard noted in his diary that he saw the event in progress on New Year’s Day, 1858, while...
