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Shot in the arm rewarded by best Mahurangi Regatta yet
Criticism of Mahurangi Regatta involvement has finally fully been answered. Ever since it revived the event, in 1977, the question of what a Mahurangi environmental organisation was doing running a regatta had periodically been…
2016 Mahurangi Regatta programme
Helping push the Auckland Regional Parks 50th anniversary boat out Regatta Day Saturday 30 January 2016 This is a good old-fashioned leave-your-wallet-at-home picnic regatta—no food or drink is on sale. Regatta-goers are invited to keep an eye out for folk who may...
Support for sublime vision of regatta and trail entwined
While one B-class might not a regatta make, the vision of a gaff-rigged ‘keeler’ sweeping majestically into the Mahurangi yesterday evening seemed to signal the beginning of the harbour’s annual transformation into New Zealand’s greatest gathering…
2018 Mahurangi Regatta programme
Long-term changes to this year’s Mahurangi Regatta include the addition of a Reactor division, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the design, and one for the H28s. Short-term changes are holding shoreside events requiring a good width…
Long-form formal submission supporting coastal trail
Auckland Council has provided an online form that short-changes the Mahurangi Coastal Trail. While it allows submitters to respond to the primary actions and developments contemplated in the draft variation to the Auckland Regional Park, the Mahurangi Coastal Trail is not…
Reasons to believe footbridge will receive fair shake
Prospects for the Mahurangi Coastal Trail aren’t as dismal as they appear. Or at least as they fail to appear, in the ‘primary actions and developments contemplated,’ in the draft variation to Auckland Regional Parks management plan published yesterday. While…
2017 Mahurangi Regatta programme
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the regatta revival by Mahurangi Action Regatta Day Saturday 28 January 2017 Friday Night-Race to Mahurangi 3 pm Classic A and Modern Classics 3.05 pm Classic B and Woollacott Series 3.10 pm B Division – Hyslop Cup 6 pm A...
Post-Paris apocalypse ou la climate quantitative easing
Post Paris, the obligatory image accompanying stories heralding the historic 195-country agreement is of banks of photovoltaic panels. If that does prove to be the immediate future, along with massive wind farms and millions of electric cars, global…