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Forecasts still fickle but Friday fingers crossed
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...
All sailing and shoreside events scuttled
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...
Dance in doubt but still too close to call
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...
Regatta dance prospects: First the bad news
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...
Thousand-patty dilemma: Stubbs to the rescue
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...
Regatta dance prospects: A washout possible
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...
2010 Mahurangi Regatta programme
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...
Media ineptitude and world awash with 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...