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by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 3 March 2019
Estb: 1923. Location: Craig Road, Milford, Auckland.
Burgee: Pennant circa
3:4 (web image). "The club pennant is blue with a red cross piped with white.
The flag officers fly, a rectangular swallow-tailed burgee, the same colours as
the pennant. The Commodore's burgee is not defaced, the Vice-Commodore’s burgee
is similar except that one white ball is displayed in the inner upper canton.
The Rear-Commodore’s burgee is also similar except that a white ball is
displayed in both the upper and lower inner canton. There is also a flag to
identify the club’s past Commodores and this is a club pennant on a white
rectangular background and a St. Georges Cross displayed."
Source: accessed
11 January 2019,
https://www.milfordcruising.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/MCC-YEARBOOK-2017-WEB.pdf
"The inaugural meeting of the Milford Cruising Club Incorporated was
held in Mr Gee’s Tearooms on 11th December 1923. An enthusiastic group met and
the first Commodore was appointed, Mr Warbrick, who won the election on the toss
of a coin! The Club bought an old house for fifty pounds in 1924 and moved it to
the Wairau Estuary. The present Clubhouse was built on site in 1970 and since
then has had three additions. The most recent addition was a major renovation of
the Clubhouse which was completed in 1994. We have held several major yachting
championships in the 1980s and 90s with the 470s and Lasers, and the World
Europe Class Championships in 1995. The Club has come a long way in over 70
years and nowadays boasts its own excellent slipway, spread over two sections
backing onto Wairau Estuary. In the 1960s, the emphasis was on centreboard
dinghies, with up to 60 boats racing off Castor Bay Beach Every weekend. As the
junior members got older, they bought or built keelers and so in the 1970s the
Club moved to larger yachts and family cruising passage races, which are still
popular today.”
Source: accessed 12 January 2019,
https://www.milfordcruising.co.nz/about-mcc-club-history/
Location:
"On the Wairau Estuary amidst the pohutakawas* on Milford Reserve, our club is
conveniently located on the North Shore with access to the Hauraki Gulf."
Source: accessed 14 January 2019,
https://www.facebook.com/pg/Milford-Cruising-Club-499820666698263/about/?ref=page_internal
* "Metrosideros excelsa, . . . pohutukawa, New Zealand Christmas tree,
New Zealand Christmas bush, and iron tree, is a coastal evergreen tree in the
myrtle family, Myrtaceae, that produces a brilliant display of red flowers made
up of a mass of stamens."
Source: accessed 19 January 2019,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrosideros_excelsa
Peter Edwards,
20 January 2019
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by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 3 March 2019
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by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 3 March 2019
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by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 3 March 2019
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by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 3 March 2019
