by Cimino | 28 Dec 2008 | About the Regatta, Regatta history
Mahurangi Regatta and the revival of a tradition Frustratingly, the first Mahurangi Regatta is not recorded. The first possibly dates from the establishment of Gordon Davis Browne’s spar station in the harbour, in 1832. More probably, Mahurangi’s first occurred when...
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 | 11 Dec 2008 | Mahurangi West Hall
Colin Hawken was sticking to his guns. Unless the ground was cut down, he insisted, the new fence he was about to erect would perch unsteadily on the edge of the bank. The bank had been formed, in the 100-odd years since the Mahurangi Heads West schoolyard was fenced,...
by Cimino | 17 Nov 2008 | Transport and climate action
Master mariner Melvyn Bowen warmed up his audience with a quiz. ‘Where am I?’ he asked of the dozen or so who turned out on Friday evening to hear from the commercial sail aficionado. The first image of the presentation was of Melvyn stood in a wheelhouse featuring a...
by Cimino | 12 Nov 2008 | Establishment trials
Key advice leading to the open-ground project came from a person with no interest in open-ground methods whatsoever. It began with a silver-bullet mission: Could harakeke, produced in bulk and planted at every opportunity, provide a nurse crop whereby seed-defecating...
by Cimino | 8 Nov 2008 | Warkworth
Planning Rodney looks like a plan. Much of the hydrological catchment is shown in a Kaipara–Mahurangi green buffer—the largest of three that would stretch from coast to coast. North of this green buffer is the northeastern mixed activity area, in a band that includes...
by Cimino | 7 Nov 2008 | Brainstorming breakfasts
Sex politics and spaceflight at brainstorming breakfast The ancient enjoinder—that guests should not discuss sex, politics or religion—should possibly be updated. I fear I have offended on more than one occasion by suggesting that spaceflight, henceforth, should be...
by Kim Morresey | 31 Oct 2008 | Action plan planning
As you may be aware, we recently held a community workshop on the future of the Mahurangi Action Plan. We had a great turnout, with lots of engaged, lively discussion. The focus of that evening was on what the next phase of Mahurangi Action Plan might look like,...
by Cimino | 29 Oct 2008 | Transport and climate action
After thousands of years powered by sail, commercial navigation switched over completely to fossil fuels. Since then, the revival of commercial sail has proved to be a curiously elusive goal. But the same reason electric cars are making a stampeding comeback—the...
by Cimino | 28 Oct 2008 | Establishment trials
Corrected 13 April 2014 Kim Morresey suggested a one-pager might be useful. Having attended the open-ground open day in Taupō, Ms Morresey, project leader of the Mahurangi Action Plan, was acutely aware that the concept of raising plants other than in containers is...
