This year's regatta was held in rough conditions on the North End club course and Hanan demonstrated he still had the skills that saw him represent New Zealand in lightweight rowing in the 1980s.
Hanan, a landfill engineer, was forced to give up serious rowing because of the demands of his career.
But his old spark has returned in masters rowing and he won two silvers and a bronze medal at the world masters championships in 2002.
Hanan was almost unstoppable in the masters events yesterday, winning three of the major races.
His most notable win came in the singles, when he always had the measure of Kevin Duggan (Otago).
Hanan was a key member of the North End quadruple sculls, with Mike Jones, Matt Thompson and his old rowing mate Kelvin Maker, that pushed the Otago club crew into second place. The crew handled the tricky conditions superbly to also beat Otago in the masters four.
Hanan and Maker had one stumble in the masters double sculls, when they were beaten by the Otago crew of Justin Evans and Kevin Duggan.
The women's masters events were dominated by the Port United crew of Imogen Coxhead, Allison Howlett, Karen Spreckly and Karen Thompson that won the quadruple sculls.
Howlett crept ahead of Spreckly to win the single sculls.
The talented Hannah Duggan (Otago) was the dominant female sculler and won four events.
She was first in the women's club double sculls, with Anna O'Leary, from North End's Emma Wallace and Courtney O'Shea. She then teamed with Rebecca Pitcathly to win the women's under-18 double sculls and was in the winning Otago open quadruple sculls with O'Leary, Pitcathly and Emma Winders.
Duggan's fourth win was in the open double sculls, with Winders, when they beat the Otago University pair of Nicola Shanks and Lauren Clark. Winders also won the open women's single sculls and the second division of the women's under-18 double sculls with O'Leary.
Caitlin Buist (University) won the women's club single sculls and was followed home by club mate Shanks and Emma Wallace (North End).
Matt Smaill (University) won the men's club single sculls and teamed with Takaaki Sato to win the men's open coxless pair.
The Mitchell Anderson-stroked King's High School crew won the novice eight.
