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Mauger Pushes For Return Of Russell Coutts Sail GP
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Mauger Pushes For Return Of Russell Coutts Sail GP

Podcast: The Mayor's Residents' Association forum covered a wide range of city issues including Belfast boy racers, Mauger’s broken rates promise, “suburban sprawl” vs inner city infrastructure.

Phil Mauger is hopeful the Sail GP can be brought back to Lyttleton in 2026.

The dolphins had been shooed away during the first Sail GP in 2023, he said. Later that was found to be illegal. Nor could sonar buoys be used to “scare them away”.

Phil Mauger wins Christchurch mayoralty : Newsline
Source: Newsline, Christchurch City Council.

In March this year, Sail GP CEO Russell Coutts had said the 2025 reg…

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