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2014 Mahurangi Regatta programme
Event date Saturday 25 January 2014 High tide 02:13 (0.87 m above mean level of sea) Low tide 08:18 (-0.84 m) High tide 14:29 (0.96 m) Low tide 20:50 (-1.01 m) Mahurangi Regatta Generally held at Sullivans Bay* *In the event of strong easterly wind, sailing entries...
Mahurangi headwaters estimated not measured
In a straight line, the stream would run from Mahurangi to Palmerston North. That is, if all the streams in the Mahurangi catchment were laid end-to-end, and assuming, of course, that there was sufficient head to cause this hypothetical stream to run. Then…
Calling all commodores to close the regatta gap
Probably more than a dozen clubs attend. The exact number of yacht and boating clubs attending is not known by the host Mahurangi Cruising Club, but 39 of the 120 affiliated to Yachting New Zealand are listed in the Makaurau region. With Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse...
Mahurangi Harbour urgently needs to sign her friends
Paid-up ‘friends’ of the Mahurangi once numbered 300—on the back of the launch of Jade River: A History of the Mahurangi. The society titled Friends of the Mahurangi, now Mahurangi Action Incorporated, published Ronald Harry Locker’s masterly 416-page work in…
Mahurangi Regatta 2014 to be graced by deputy mayor
It is Mahurangi Harbour’s only annual gathering, but it is sublime. Fittingly, the Mahurangi Regatta is a celebration both for Aucklanders privileged to call the harbour home, full- or part- time, and of those who reside in less utterly idyllic parts of the region but...
Conservation volunteers could realise action plan
Forty farm plans completed and 120 kilometres of riparian margin protected. From those figures, it would be easy to imagine that Mahurangi catchment’s elevated sediment accumulation rate was well on its way to being comprehensively…
Motorway harbour’s biggest threat since deforestation
Clearly, something has to be done. State Highway 1 between Pūhoi and Wellsford is lethal, and at times congested. In 2010, the Campaign for Better Transport in its Operation Lifesaver document came up with two options, either of which, by now…
Resolving outstanding practical problem
It’s nine years six weeks since it was signed. So there is every likelihood that, by the tenth anniversary of the signing of heads of agreement, what Justice Rhys Harrison described in his declaratory judgement as the outstanding practical problems…