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) Many love to malign meteorologists. The suicide of the father of British meteorology, whose name is immortalised for New Zealanders geographically with Port Fitzroy, was possibly assisted...
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...
by Mahurangi Action | 20 Jan 2010 | Regatta 2010
Event date Saturday 30 January 2010 High tide 07:47 (1.30 m) then 20:03 (1.21 m) Sailing events Mahurangi Cruising Club Shoreside events Friends of the Mahurangi Latest update Mahurangi Regatta Generally* held at Sullivans Bay *In the event of a strong easterly...
by Cimino | 20 Jan 2010 | Cartoons, Climate disinformation
Classical propaganda is instantly recognisable. It flutters to earth from an enemy aircraft or is plastered up in the form of clumsy government-printed posters in public places. But the art of the propagandist has become extraordinarily sophisticated, and civilisation...
by Cimino | 17 Jan 2010 | Regatta 2010
Event date Saturday 30 January 2010 Venue Sullivan Bay, Mahurangi regional Park, Mahurangi West High tide 07:47 (1.30 m) then 20:03 (1.21 m) Shoreside events Friends of the Mahurangi Sailing events Mahurangi Cruising Club Philippa posses, in common with many of her...
by Cimino | 17 Jan 2010 | Regatta history
In regattas past, Scott Homestead would sit locked and mostly unused. The kitchen was pressed into service, preparing salads for the evening’s venison burgers, but otherwise visitors were unable to to see inside. Last regatta, Paul Deacon held an exhibition of his...
