Maori Bay Board Riders Club

15/09/2026

🌊 Celebrating the Life of Geoff Clasby

With the sad passing of our much-loved Geoff Clasby, Leigh, Brendon and family would like to invite all his friends, mates, and everyone who knew and loved Geoff, including those who shared a wave or two with him, to come together and celebrate his life.

Please join us at Muriwai Surf Club on Sunday, 20 September.

Arrival from 1:00pm
The service will begin at 1:15pm.

Come along, share a few stories, some good memories, and celebrate a great man who loved the ocean and the people around him.

Everyone who knew and loved Geoff is welcome.

🌊 Come and celebrate Geoff, share a wave, a story and a few laughs — just the way he would have liked it.

"Kia hora te marino, Kia whakapapa pounamu te moana, kia tere te Karohirohi i mua i tou huarahi"

"May the calm be widespread , May the ocean glisten as greenstone, May the shimmer of light ever dance across your pathway"

Nga Mihi Nui
Team MBBR

20/08/2026

Muriwai Skate Park — Important Notice

The new Muriwai Skate Park is well underway and coming along awesome! 🛹🙌
We’ve had feedback from the contractors that people have tried to test skate the area. Unfortunately, the concrete is not ready for skating and has only just been primed.

Using the facility before it’s ready could damage the new concrete and potentially delay the opening for our community. Please help us keep an eye out and make sure nobody is using the skate park until it officially opens.

🚧 The skate park is currently an active work site. For everyone’s safety, please keep out of the area while construction is underway, and help us protect this amazing new facility.

We know everyone is excited — and so are we! 🙏🛹 We’ve got a bunch planned for opening day, and after waiting this long, it’ll definitely be worth waiting just a little longer so we can all enjoy it properly together.

Thanks everyone for your patience, support and help in getting this project over the line! ❤️

08/08/2026

Special prize tomorrow for best Bruce McClaren racecar barrel

02/08/2026

Next Sunday it’s MID WINTER MADNESS!

Enter here
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20/06/2026

Troy Hirst Farewell - Livestream 2pm

20/06/2026

Hi all, confirming that Troy’s paddle out will be happening tomorrow at 11am sharp.
It is a bit of a marginal forecast but we are going to make it happen!
Please meet at the Bay from 10.30am, see you there!

16/06/2026

Prior to the service on Sunday afternoon, the MBBR will be holding a paddle out at the Bay in honor of Troy.
Please meet at the southern end of the carpark at 10.30am where we will say a few words before heading out into the water around at 11am. If you don’t plan on paddling out you are welcome to watch from the bank.
At this point the forecast is a bit marginal but swell size should be manageable, we will provide an update later in the week as needed.
Hope to see you there.
Team MBBR

14/06/2026

On behalf of the Hirst family, a service to celebrate Troy and bid him farewell will be held next Sunday the 21st of June at the Muriwai Surfclub.
All those who knew and loved Troy are warmly invited to attend.
Please arrive from 1.30pm with formalities to commence from 2pm, there is plenty of car parking on the lawn area in front of the club.
In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests that donations be made to the Give a Little fundraiser to support Troy’s children Westen and Mikayla

A fundraiser supporting Mikayla and Westen Hirst following the passing of their father, Troy Hirst.

11/06/2026

Help us protect Muriwai foreshore!!

PLEASE TAKE 5 MINUTES TO HAVE YOUR SAY BELOW BY 5PM TOMORROW FRI 12th

As surfers who enjoy Maori Bay / Maukatia, and the surrounding bays on a daily basis we feel that we have a great stake in the health and wellbeing of the foreshore environment here.
We consider ourselves Kaitiaki for this area. We have watched the decline of life on the intertidal foreshore, and are alarmed at the exponential growth in the volume of harvesting over the last year or two, and the decline that has occurred.

Our club supports Option 3: a full intertidal closure (Option 1) plus, outside of the intertidalclosure area, a combined recreational daily limit of ten shellfish for any species without its own recreational daily limit, in the Auckland Coromandel area. But do not support “200m offshore from the high tide mark” *

We want to preserve and protect our foreshore, and allow the once abundant life to return.

The last review was 30 years ago, so this is likely our only chance to have our say!

PLEASE TAKE 5 MINUTES TO HAVE YOUR SAY BELOW BY 5PM TOMORROW FRI 12th

Updates 25 May 2026 – Presentation on proposals at a community information session Fisheries New Zealand provided an overview of the proposals at a community information session on 24 May 2026. The presentation should be read alongside the full consultation document and summary of proposals.

07/05/2026

Huge thanks to Norrie for capturing the moments of the Col McNeil 👊
You can download the pics for free!

ps://www.norriemontgomery.photography/galleryslide/11402069faff8b38c4c/list

Col McNeil Memorial Surf Comp by Norrie Montgomery Photography