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Preventing climate confusion raining
Regular readers will be aware that my goal of a new page published every day has gone up in CO2. The reason is that I have an additional job, as a subeditor for Fairfax Media. Taking up a new job at 61 years has proved to be both exhilarating and exhausting. Some…
Warkworth riverside dinner could have been regatta
A number of times the Mahurangi Regatta has had to be cancelled. On one occasion, controversially, it was the weather before the regatta, rather than on the day, that caused the cancellation of the shoreside regatta—the unprecedentedly rain-soaked regional park...
Shoreside regatta director honoured – What time’s the tide?
Even in 1977, it was inescapable. Having revived the regatta, after it had lapsed for three decades, found it had a tiger by the tail—an event that insisted upon being held...
Mahurangi action plan yes we can
”We’ve been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.” I’d been struggling with how to simply and succinctly explain what the Mahurangi Magazine and the…
Support for dance ensures survival of the revival
An email from the Weiti Boating Club nicely summarised the sea change: Weiti Boating Club is racing to Mahurangi tonight and we plan to have our club barbecue and prize-giving ashore on Saturday evening at Scotts Landing, as we have done…
Bring a picnic to the regatta, and to the prize-giving and dance…
Recreating the traditional picnic regatta, was the vision. When revived the Mahurangi Regatta, in 1977, the elders were adamant it was to be a traditional picnic regatta, where the...
Times to launch and retrieve small boats at Sullivans
Mahurangi Regatta Saturday 26 January Launching 9.00–11.00 am Retrieval 3.30–4.30 pm High tide 10.54 am 1.29 m Except at the regatta, boat launching from trailers at Sullivans is not permitted. Most appreciate that that is the case, and in two senses of the...
2008 Mahurangi Regatta programme
Event date 26 January 2008 High tide 10:54 (1.29 m) Beach events Friends of the Mahurangi Sailing events Mahurangi Cruising Club Mahurangi Regatta Generally* held at Sullivans Bay *In the event of a strong easterly forecast, at Scotts Landing 9.00 Entries (for sailing...