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Cimino | 19 Jan 2025
An abiding fondness almost immediately formed for it, after Mahurangi ActionMahurangi Action Incorporated: established 1974 as Friends of the Mahurangi revived the Mahurangi Regatta, in 1977. The good old-fashioned, leave-your-wallet-at-home picnic regatta is palpably heartwarming—the monetisation-free-zone ethos reflecting the fact…
Cimino | 23 Dec 2024
Mahurangi Regatta 2025—hopefully, this one summer only—will not include the wildly enthusiastically patronised prize-giving dance. Despite the heroic, 2024 effort to future-proof the dance with the purchase of the Mahurangi Harbour community marquee…
Cimino | 6 Feb 2024
By signing on the shoreside events crew, Mahurangi Regatta lovers help carry forward a tradition dating from before the first recorded, on New Year’s Day 1858. When Mahurangi Action revived the regatta in 1977, the committee members, most of who had lived through…
by Cimino | 8 Nov 2023
Pointedly billed as a good old-fashioned, leave-your-wallet-at-home picnic regatta since its 1977 revival by Mahurangi ActionMahurangi Action Incorporated: established 1974 as Friends of the Mahurangi, the organisation has very determinedly kept it that way ever since. Although the beach had been in public ownership for Mahurangi West parkland acquired 1967–1970seven or so years…
Cimino | 8 Nov 2023
In the wholly unlikely event that Mahurangi had served a period as New Zealand’s capital, after its potential suitability had been assessed for that purpose, the harbourscape of Auckland’s best kept secret would, today, be predominantly urban. In glorious contrast…
Cimino | 8 Feb 2023
Mahurangi Regatta 2023, or rather its cancellation, has added an important loop to the loose algorithm that has been run 46 times since Mahurangi Action revived an institution—of which only scant clues had survived, as to how it was run. Initially, the sailing and…
Cimino | 14 Feb 2025
Mahurangi Regatta content published prior to 2022 is still available, but in a somewhat less phone-friendly format. The reformatting is a laborious process, but also an opportunity to improve, and to fix links that have broken when, as…
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