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Cimino | 23 Feb 2023
Built for a horn-playing son whose mother, as a schoolgirl, rowed across and along the Mahakipawa Armof Pelorus Sound, Marlborough Sounds and back daily, the diminutive flat-bottomed Hornblower was designed to range no farther than the Pūhoi Show, and then only in settled weather. Michael Thorne…
Cimino | 9 Feb 2025
For 48 years, the organisation that revived the Mahurangi Regatta and has not had Regatta in its name. On the morning after the Mahu West Summer Fest, that which was established as Friends of the Mahurangi will—members willing—seek to be…
Cimino | 9 Oct 2024
While the Mahurangi event will always be the magnificent, the unique, uniquely Mahurangi , Mahurangi Regatta, there have—sporadically and annually—been, and are, of course, lessor events. A lesser event that richly deserves to become an…
Cimino | 15 Sep 2024
Over the summers, Mahurangi Regatta organisers have been rewarded by images offered by a legion of superb photographers. The canon of work by Lyn Bergquist will possibly never be matched, but, in 2006, it was beautyfully complemented by the sublime Max Cumming…
Cimino | 15 Sep 2024
Essential for the sustainability of Mahurangi Regatta, as the pinnacle of equitable access, the Mahurangi Harbour community marquee is also available for private events that benefit the community, weddings being the standout contributors in that regard…
Cimino | 2024
From the cover of the first and last glossy edition of the Mahurangi Magazine that led to this magazine-styled site, the work of photographers and fine artists leavens the writing, unrelentingly impatient with Earthlings’ failure to prioritise the wellbeing of their home plan…
Ronald H Locker | 2001
A Mahurangi son, if there ever was one, was deeply moulded by time spent with his grandparents, in their corner of Huawai Bay, where, on a neap tide, the mangroves were barely wetted. When his Jameison forebears settled that niche would have enjoyed far…
Cimino | 31 Aug 2024
In its very earliest of stages, please be warned that this is the mother-of-all works in progress. Few chapters, or front matter items are anything like complete—serialisation taken to absurd new heights. Only time will tell whether it is a writer’s block breakthrough or recipe…
Cimino | 17 Sep 2024
Objectively, civilisation is displaying every indication that it could fail to mobilise in the face of the spiralling climate mega-polycrisis at sufficient speed and scale to salvage a survivable climate. Every molecule of effort not fiercely concentrated the world’s first mega…
Cimino | 2024
Such will be the magnificence of the Mahurangi Coastal Path that none who walk it will imagine for a moment that its inevitability was ever other than a given. Comprehensiveness of coastal walkway, surely is a measure of a civilised country, particularly a small…
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