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Sign on the 2025 Mahurangi Regatta shoreside crew

Saturday 25 January 2025 – always Auckland Anniversary weekend Saturday
Please note that some of these roles are being reviewed, following some fruitful improvision at the 2024 Mahurangi Regatta. If you are potentially aboard for any of the roles listed below, please leave your name and email:

Name*

First Last

Email*

What role?

Happy to help regardless of role, probably in the morning
Happy to help regardless of role, probably in the afternoon
I will indicate the role I would prefer, below

Big-picture and long-term planning

Regatta shoreside crew boatswain (coordinator)

How hard can it be!
As understudy to the shoreside-crew boatswain

Principal regatta organiser

How hard can it be, with 12 months lead time!
As understudy to the regatta organiser (1 required)

Weather analyst

Yes, I will provide my first analysis the Tuesday before (1 required)

Workboat crew – the J Barry Ferguson

Friday (3 required)
Regatta am (2 required)
Regatta pm (2 required)
Regatta evening (2 required)
Regatta morning after (2 required)

Friday 26 January 2024

Equipment loaders (2 required)
Buoy and tackle deliverers, before 10 am (3 required)
Buoy-layers (3 required)
Evening buoy patrol (1 required)
Ngārewa Drive intersection regatta sign (1 filled)

Classic Launch Parade spotters Friday/Saturday

Yes, I can anchor my vessel at the outer end of the fairway Friday evening – Saturday midday
Yes, I can relay names of the classic launches to the announcers, from Saturday 10.30 am
Yes, I can support the classic-launch spotter, for the two laps of the parade

Saturday 27 January 2024 – Set up

Mahurangi Action gazebo (4 required)
Set up start and finish lines (2 required)
Programme boards (2 required)
Certificates and race entries gazebos (4 required)
Sand sculpture space (2 required?)
Position ambulance (2 x 10 minutes required)

Morning events

Shoreside events trouble shooter (1 required)
Announcers (2 required)
Launch parade and sailing commentator (2 required)
Beach events starter (1 required)
Beach events finisher (4 required)
Certificate writers (3 required?)
Mahurangi Action information, membership (1 filled, 1 required)
Master of the Mahurangi musterer (1 required)

Afternoon events

Shoreside regatta director (as per morning)
Announcers (as per morning)
Beach events starter (2 required)
Beach events finisher (4 required)
Certificate writers (3 required)
Mahurangi Action information, membership (1 filled, 1 required)
Sand sculpture facilitator (1 filled, 1 required)
Sand sculpture judge (1 filled, 1 required)
Tug ’o war boatswain (1 required)

Sullivans Bay pack down

Announcer stage and gazebo (1 filled, 1 required)
Start and finish lines (1 required)
Programme boards (1 filled, 1 required)
Certificates and race entries gazebos (1 filled, 3 required)
Sand sculpture space (1 required)

Scotts Landing – Free regatta shuttlebus driver

Morning (2 filled, 1 required)
Afternoon (2 filled, 1 required)
Evening (2 filled, 1 required)
Wherever there might be gaps

Scotts Landing – Free regatta parking marshal

Morning (1 required)
Afternoon (2 required)
Evening (1 required)
Wherever there might be gaps

Scott Homestead gatekeeper

3–4.45 pm (1—or 2 for company—required)
4.45–6.15 pm (1—or 2 for company—filled)
Whichever shift there might be gaps

Scott Homestead coastal heritage art competition curators

Morning (2 required)
Afternoon (2 required)
Early evening (2 required)
Whichever shift there might be gaps

Scott Homestead – West City Jazz Orchestra catering corps

Afternoon prep (3 filled)
Early evening serving (3 filled)
Wherever there are gaps

Scotts Landing, morning after (breakfast supplied!)

Scott Homestead area pack-down commissar
8–9 am Scott Homestead area clean-up (4 required)
9–9.30 am parking paddock clean-up (2 required)
9.30–10 am retrieval of signs (1 required)

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