Category: Cruising

MAHURANGI REGATTA 

One of the highlights of the summer calendar and for most of us the end of the cruising season is the regatta held by the Mahurangi cruising club over anniversary weekend. Patronised by the Auckland Classic fleet including well over 100 race entries from all the Auckland Clubs, and at least that again of cruising boats, it’s a celebration of sail and a fantastic chance to see a huge variety of crack racing boats from the 1800’s onwards, and did we mention the party on Saturday night? Most clubs run a Friday evening race to Mahurangi harbour and this Friday was the best in years with a forecast for 10-15 kts from the south.

Princess Heading To Tiri Continue reading “Mahurangi Regatta”

The Rangitoto Cruising Race followed on from the success last year of the Stewart 34 ‘s “Old Fox” cruising race and Summer get together which is primarily aimed and getting cruisers involved with the class. Geoff from Panacea kindly offered his family’s batch at Rangitoto to the Stewart 34 Association so we could have a BBQ and prize giving event after a casual race.

Continue reading “The ‘Round Rangitoto Race, Saturday January 18”

Neil Heath from Precedent writes:

Had a good Regatta down at the Mercs over labour weekend. Princess, Phoenician, Prince Hal and Precedent went down to represent the Stewart Fleet.Good racing ensued over the weekend with Princess taking out the round Island races and Precedent taking out the passage races.

Thanks to Neil for the great photos!

Continue reading “The Legends Regatta”