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Wednesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2023</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Regatta in limbo: Driver backs<br />
return of SailGP to Lyttelton<br />
• By Christopher Reive<br />
KIWI SAILGP driver Phil<br />
Robertson has thrown his<br />
support behind the league<br />
moving its New Zealand event<br />
to Lyttelton after Auckland was<br />
ruled out as a host.<br />
The global foiling league was<br />
scheduled to take to the waters<br />
of the Waitematā <strong>Harbour</strong> in<br />
March 2024, but with land at<br />
Wynyard Point not available to<br />
be utilised for spectators, SailGP<br />
made the call they could not put<br />
on an event that could run to<br />
their standards and scrapped the<br />
Auckland regatta.<br />
However, SailGP is hopeful of<br />
finding another suitable location<br />
in New Zealand, with a return<br />
to Lyttelton – after a successful<br />
debut early in <strong>2023</strong> – the most<br />
likely option.<br />
“That gets our vote, that’s for<br />
sure. We’d be very excited to go<br />
back to Christchurch. That was<br />
one of the best venues this series<br />
has raced on. We had perfect<br />
conditions, flat water and a lovely<br />
time,” Robertson, who drives for<br />
the Canadian SailGP Team, said<br />
at a press conference ahead of an<br />
event in Dubai at the weekend.<br />
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Robertson’s Canadian team<br />
finished third in Dubai, with<br />
New Zealand winning and Australia<br />
second.<br />
SailGP chief executive Sir<br />
Russell Coutts has indicated time<br />
is running out to secure a venue<br />
for the New Zealand event, and<br />
the short-notice nature of the<br />
PHOTOS: BRETT PHIBBS/ RICARDO PINTO/SAILGP<br />
move is likely making things<br />
a bit tougher. However, an announcement<br />
about the future of<br />
the 2024 event is expected to be<br />
made in the coming weeks.<br />
In the league’s New Zealand<br />
debut earlier this year, Robertson<br />
led the Canadian team to their<br />
first event win on Lyttelton<br />
<strong>Harbour</strong>.<br />
New Zealand SailGP Team<br />
driver Peter Burling voiced his<br />
disappointment at the New<br />
Zealand regatta having to be<br />
moved away from Auckland, but<br />
SAILGP: Canada beat<br />
New Zealand and<br />
Australia to win the<br />
New Zealand event<br />
in March. Inset: Phil<br />
Robertson leads his<br />
team to their win.<br />
said it wasn’t something the team<br />
could control.<br />
“It’s a real shame not to be<br />
having an event in Auckland,<br />
the biggest city in New Zealand.<br />
We’ve had a whole heap of racing<br />
on the Waitematā (<strong>Harbour</strong>)<br />
– it would’ve been a beautiful<br />
place to sail, but SailGP as a<br />
league decided it wasn’t viable<br />
to host there with the amount<br />
of space we had on the shore,<br />
but hopefully we’ll have some<br />
exciting news in weeks to come.”<br />
– NZ Herald<br />
NEWS 3<br />
Fish n chip<br />
shop fire ‘a<br />
good save’<br />
by crew<br />
• By Dylan Smits<br />
VOLUNTEER firefighters saved<br />
a Lyttelton fish and chip shop<br />
from burning down after a small<br />
fire broke out afterhours.<br />
Lyttelton fire chief Mark Buckley<br />
credited his crew for their<br />
quick work extinguishing the<br />
flames at the London Fish and<br />
Chips shop before much damage<br />
was done.<br />
“It was a very, very good save<br />
from the boys,” he said.<br />
The fire was caused by a fat<br />
fryer, which Buckley believes<br />
was left on after closing.<br />
At 12.30am on Saturday, staff<br />
next door at Eruption Brewing<br />
noticed smoke billowing out of<br />
the fish an shop’s vent.<br />
They called 111 and a team<br />
of nine firefighters arrived and<br />
put out the small fire within 30<br />
minutes.<br />
“It was very lucky that the<br />
boys from eruption saw it,”<br />
Buckley said.<br />
He also said the incident<br />
serves as a reminder to retailers<br />
to make sure they turn off<br />
appliances after closing.<br />
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