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The most exciting racing on water arrives for the KPMG Australia Sail Grand Prix | Sydney on 18-19 February 2023.

Witness the world’s best sailing athletes from nine nations go to battle in flying F50 foiling catamarans on Sydney Harbour.

This is your chance to access a limited number of tickets to Genesis Island with a 15 percent Early Bird discount off full price tickets. Tickets for Team Base Tours are also available, taking you behind the scenes of the SailGP Technical Area and Team Bases. Please note, there is no discount on these tickets.

Our VIP Club member ticket release sold out in record time, so don’t delay booking! Secure your tickets now and don’t miss out on being part of the heart-thumping action on Sydney Harbour.

*Early Bird tickets, including the discount on Genesis Island, are available from 9am on Monday 24 October and will close at midnight on Sunday 20 November 2022, unless sold out prior. Information for ticketed official spectator boats and private charters will be released soon.

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Location: Shark Island, Sydney Harbour National Park

Your ticket includes: Access to Shark Island Return ferry transfers from SailGP Race Village at Barangaroo Front row seats to watch the live racing Gourmet picnic hamper Premium open bar Big screens and live race commentary DJ and pre- and post-race entertainment Climate positive ticket – offsetting the carbon impact of your time with us *Genesis Island is for ages 5+.

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It’s one of the world’s fast-growing sports. But you’ll need $35m to buy in — SailGP explained

There’s no sport quite like Sail GP. It’s been called F1 on water, which is a fair assessment – especially since four-time F1 champion Sebastian Vettel is a backer of the German team that debuted this season.

Germany is one of ten nations competing in Season Four of the competition, where identical, hi-tech F50 catamarans race at dizzying speeds up to 100km/h.

This weekend, the competition will take to Sydney Harbour for the Australian Sail Grand Prix, the eighth stop of the 13-round season which takes place in glamorous locations around the world.

Here’s everything you need to know about the sport – and why this weekend is a must-watch.

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WHAT IS SAIL GP?

Sailing has a long history of competition – from the Olympics to the America’s Cup, the oldest ongoing international sporting contest. But the America’s Cup only takes place every three or four years, and the main event happens between just two competing yachts.

Sail GP (which stands for Grand Prix) was founded as an annual competition for teams – representing nations – to compete with the same machinery on a regular schedule.

That’s a key difference that sets Sail GP apart. Instead of a technological arms race between rival teams, like motor racing or the America’s Cup, using the same yachts means Sail GP is a test of skill and tactics.

And the yachts themselves are special. The F50 catamarans are based on those used in the America’s Cup in 2017 – the AC50. In another connection with the F1 world, Great Britain’s challenger for the 2017 America’s Cup was built alongside Red Bull Advanced Technologies – headed by Adrian Newey, who led the development of Red Bull’s dominant F1 car.

But the F50 has been developed year on year to become almost unbelievably complex and advanced yachts.

The name F50 is straightforward. 50 stands for 50 feet, the length of the carbon fibre hull. The F stands for foiling, which is when a boat’s hull (or hulls, in the case of a catamaran) is lifted out of the water on hydrofoils, or small wings that poke out of the bottom of the hulls.

Like the wings on a plane, they create lift, and the boats appear to fly or hover in the air with only these small carbon fibre foils under the water.

By lifting the hull out of the water, foiling reduces drag – and allows the yachts to hit staggering speeds. The current SailGP record is 53.96 knots or 99.94 km/h.

Next year, the foils will be replaced by a new model made out of titanium – and they expect speeds up to 110km/h or 59 knots.

If you don’t understand foiling, don’t worry. All you need to know is that these boats (with five crew members each) are hi-tech, extremely complex machines. And really, really fast.

As SailGP CEO Russell Coutts told Time recently: “When you look into the cockpit of one of these boats, it is like looking into an aircraft. You’ve got all the control panels. It looks like a Formula 1 steering wheel.

“You’ve got various control switches on the steering wheel. If there was anything like medium wind and upwards, a club sailor would probably hurt himself.”

Sir Russell Coutts himself was a champion sailor, who won a gold medal at the 1984 Olympics and won the America’s Cup five times among many other successes.

HOW DOES THE COMPETITION WORK?

It started out with six teams (each representing a nation, including Australia), competing across five events. It’s rapidly expanded, with Season 4 – the current season – seeing ten teams compete at 13 events.

In each event, the entire field races six times (called a fleet race). They’re rapid, chaotic races, and they usually last around 12 minutes.

Each team gets points depending on where they finish each race (10 points for first, all the way down to one for last place).

After that, the top three teams based on event points face off in a final.

The winner gets 10 championship points, second gets nine, third gets eight, and the other seven teams get points depending on their ranking in the event.

There’s a $200,000 USD prize for the winner of each event.

At the end of the season, the three teams highest on the championship leaderboard race off in the Grand Final – a single race where the winning team picks up a $2m USD prize.

And here’s the crazy thing: the Australian team, led by skipper Tom Slingsby, have won all three Grand Finals so far. And this year, after seven of 13 rounds, they once again lead the championship in their pursuit of a fourth-straight title.

Slingsby was already a sailing legend before SailGP came around. He won three-straight world championships sailing Laser dinghies. Then he won the 2012 London Olympics gold medal in that category. He was the strategist for USA’s 2013 America’s Cup win, and skippered Perpetual LOYAL to line honours victory in the 2016 Sydney to Hobart race. He’s won multiple world sailor of the year awards too.

He’s just one of many sailing superstars competing in SailGP. It’s the best of the best: world champions, America’s Cup winners, Olympic medallists. Put them in extremely advanced yachts and the result is elite racing.

HOW POPULAR IS IT?

SailGP is one of the fastest-growing sports in the world. Think pickleball – another niche sport that has exploded into the mainstream.

SailGP started with six teams competing at five events. Now, it’s up to ten teams at 13 events. Next year, there’ll be another two teams added, and the eventual aim is around 20 races – just like F1.

What’s critical is that it’s not just popular among sailing fans. SailGP CEO Sir Russell Coutts told Time that only around 30 to 40 per cent of fans have any other connection in sailing.

Last November, an investment group led by Marc Lasry, former owner of the Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA, bought the U.S. team for a SailGP record price. The ownership group also includes a host of sporting superstars such as heavyweight boxing world champion Deontay Wilder and a number of NFL stars, as well as Hollywood actors and even a founding Uber engineer.

The cost was claimed to be nearly $80m USD by the Sports Business Journal .

Coutts said: “We started selling teams between $5 million and $10 million [USD]. Now you can’t buy a team without $35 million. We know we’ve got demand for teams. We can’t build boats fast enough.”

And fans are flocking to watch both in person and on broadcast, where global viewership in the first half of this season is up about 24 per cent on last season.

HOW DANGEROUS IS IT?

Well, foiling is inherently difficult. The tiniest mistake – or shift of the wind – and the boat can go crashing back into the water or capsize.

Controlling what is effectively a 2,500kg wind-powered rocket at speeds up to 100km/h – while racing nine opponents around a course with strict boundaries – means crashes are inevitable.

One of the most infamous crashes happened in Sydney in season two, when the British team slammed into the Japanese team at high speeds, causing severe damage – though luckily no-one was injured.

Even when the yachts are just cruising along and not racing, they’re still extremely complex and hard to control. Take Australia’s ‘Flying Roo’, which narrowly avoided capsizing in Italy last year when it was merely parading for a crowd after a day of training.

There’s been no shortage of crashes down the years – and plenty of damage to the yachts that are worth around $4m USD each. Luckily, there have been no deaths.

WHAT WILL SYDNEY BE LIKE?

For one thing, windy. After a series of events this season with light wind conditions – which means slower racing – the forecast is for some of the heaviest wind conditions of the entire season.

Last year, a freak weather event after Saturday’s racing damaged a host of boats and saw Sunday’s racing cancelled entirely.

“It’s a really tricky, challenging venue, which creates a lot of exciting racing, lead changes and opportunity,” said Taylor Canfield, driver of the United States team.

Canada driver Phil Robertson said that light winds – such as last time out in Abu Dhabi – create “Micky Mouse racing: it’s open to anyone, that’s the reality.”

He added: “I’m especially looking forward to Sydney because we have done a lot of light air sailing in the last four or five events and Sydney is going to be a reality check.”

A reality check of just how hard it is to control these boating behemoths in big wind.

But if things get really windy, we could easily see history made this weekend.

As Slingsby told the Financial Review : “Last year I think we got to 95-96 km/h in Sydney, so if we get a good solid sea-breeze or a big southerly front come down the coast, it will be a good shot for us to break that 100 km/h mark.”

That would be a stunning achievement – and the Bureau of Meteorology currently forecast a southerly of 20 to 30 km/h on Saturday.

Just as important for Team Australia is the opportunity to win their first race of the season. Slingsby’s team leads the championship thanks to a lot of podium finishes throughout the season – but they’re still awaiting their first race win of the campaign.

Australia has 56 points after seven rounds (from a maximum of 70, given 10 points goes to the winner each event). New Zealand has 50 and the United States and Denmark have 43 each.

It’s another close campaign, and Sydney is poised to deliver the best event of the season so far.

RACE DAY 1: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24

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Witness the world's best sailing athletes from nine nations battle it out at electrifying speeds in flying F50 foiling catamarans on one of the world’s best harbours for Season 3 of SailGP.

The most exciting racing on water, KPMG Australia Sail Grand Prix takes place over the weekend of 18-19 February 2023 showcasing the best Sydney Harbour has to offer. 

Choose from a range of free and ticketed spectator experiences both on and off-water. Be front row on Genesis Island in the middle of the harbour to experience the drama, excitement and glamour. Go behind-the-scenes with an exclusive tour of the 'pit lane garages' where athletes and shore teams prepare one of the world’s fastest sail racing boats, the high tech F50. Away from the racing, the SailGP Village at Barangaroo offers exciting programming for fans. There is something for everyone!

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Sailing used to be considered as a rather sedate pastime. But in the past few years, the world of yacht racing has been revolutionised by the arrival of hydrofoil-supported catamarans, known as “foilers”. These vessels, more akin to high-performance aircraft than yachts, combine the laws of aerodynamics and hydrodynamics to create vessels capable of speeds of up to 50 knots, which is far faster than the wind propelling them.

An F50 catamaran preparing for the Sail GP series recently even broke this barrier, reaching an incredible speed of 50.22 knots (57.8mph) purely powered by the wind. This was achieved in a wind of just 19.3 knots (22.2mph). F50s are 15-metre-long, 8.8-metre-wide hydrofoil catamarans propelled by rigid sails and capable of such astounding speeds that Sail GP has been called the “ Formula One of sailing ”. How are these yachts able to go so fast? The answer lies in some simple fluid dynamics.

As a vessel’s hull moves through the water, there are two primary physical mechanisms that create drag and slow the vessel down. To build a faster boat you have to find ways to overcome the drag force.

The first mechanism is friction. As the water flows past the hull, a microscopic layer of water is effectively attached to the hull and is pulled along with the yacht. A second layer of water then attaches to the first layer, and the sliding or shearing between them creates friction.

On the outside of this is a third layer, which slides over the inner layers creating more friction, and so on. Together, these layers are known as the boundary layer – and it’s the shearing of the boundary layer’s molecules against each other that creates frictional drag.

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A yacht also makes waves as it pushes the water around and under the hull from the bow (front) to the stern (back) of the boat. The waves form two distinctive patterns around the yacht (one at each end), known as Kelvin Wave patterns.

These waves, which move at the same speed as the yacht, are very energetic. This creates drag on the boat known as the wave-making drag, which is responsible for around 90% of the total drag. As the yacht accelerates to faster speeds (close to the “hull speed”, explained later), these waves get higher and longer.

These two effects combine to produce a phenomenon known as “ hull speed ”, which is the fastest the boat can travel – and in conventional single-hull yachts it is very slow. A single-hull yacht of the same size as the F50 has a hull speed of around 12 mph.

However, it’s possible to reduce both the frictional and wave-making drag and overcome this hull-speed limit by building a yacht with hydrofoils . Hydrofoils are small, underwater wings. These act in the same way as an aircraft wing, creating a lift force which acts against gravity, lifting our yacht upwards so that the hull is clear of the water.

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While an aircraft’s wings are very large, the high density of water compared to air means that we only need very small hydrofoils to produce a lot of the important lift force. A hydrofoil just the size of three A3 sheets of paper, when moving at just 10 mph, can produce enough lift to pick up a large person.

This significantly reduces the surface area and the volume of the boat that is underwater, which cuts the frictional drag and the wave-making drag, respectively. The combined effect is a reduction in the overall drag to a fraction of its original amount, so that the yacht is capable of sailing much faster than it could without hydrofoils.

The other innovation that helps boost the speed of racing yachts is the use of rigid sails . The power available from traditional sails to drive the boat forward is relatively small, limited by the fact that the sail’s forces have to act in equilibrium with a range of other forces, and that fabric sails do not make an ideal shape for creating power. Rigid sails, which are very similar in design to an aircraft wing, form a much more efficient shape than traditional sails, effectively giving the yacht a larger engine and more power.

As the yacht accelerates from the driving force of these sails, it experiences what is known as “ apparent wind ”. Imagine a completely calm day, with no wind. As you walk, you experience a breeze in your face at the same speed that you are walking. If there was a wind blowing too, you would feel a mixture of the real (or “true” wind) and the breeze you have generated.

The two together form the apparent wind, which can be faster than the true wind. If there is enough true wind combined with this apparent wind, then significant force and power can be generated from the sail to propel the yacht, so it can easily sail faster than the wind speed itself.

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The combined effect of reducing the drag and increasing the driving power results in a yacht that is far faster than those of even a few years ago. But all of this would not be possible without one further advance: materials. In order to be able to “fly”, the yacht must have a low mass, and the hydrofoil itself must be very strong. To achieve the required mass, strength and rigidity using traditional boat-building materials such as wood or aluminium would be very difficult.

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The engineers who design these high-performance boats (known as naval architects ) are always looking to use new materials and science to get an optimum design. In theory, the F50 should be able to go even faster.

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World champion, lighter = better, craftsmanship, meet the foiling f1x a-class catamaran.

This is the ultimate singlehanded foiling catamaran of the moment: ultramodern, incredibly fast, very agile, extremely strong and feather-light, in an aerodynamic and ergonomic design. The perfect total package, packed in 1 foiling catamaran. This is the world’s coolest boat for singlehanded races and the winner of several A-cat world championships and many other sailing races.

The 2020-F1x A-cat is exactly the same foiling catamaran that made Mischa Heemskerk Vice-World Champion at the Herveybay Worlds 2018 in Australia and World Champion at Weymouth 2019. All our foiling F1x A-class catamarans come straight, ready to race and ‘Mischa-tuned’ from our factory.

Unique design enables top performances

The F1x A-class foiling catamaran is the ultimate reflection of our current design language. The aerodynamic design accentuates the performance qualities of this super fast foiling racing boat. The sophisticated deck plan provides clear control and minimal air resistance.

Foils The rudders and daggerboard foils used on the F1x A-class foiling catamarans are produced with the highest quality carbon pre-preg fibers. The foils are cured in our own Autoclave . Our winning foil design was created in close cooperation with Glenn Ashby and the designers of AC Team New Zealand .

Construction The F1x A-cat is manufactured entirely according to the carbon pre-preg/ Nomex production method, and cured in our Autoclave. This technology is the same as used in the aerospace industry and within other foiling boats like for example, the America’s Cup.

Design The design of the F1x foiling A-class catamaran was completely conceived by the DNA design team and made at DNA’s own yard. In the DNA design team Pieterjan Dwarshuis, Mischa Heemskerk and the renowned Dutch industrial design engineer Rudo Enserink worked closely together to create the perfect foiling A-class catamaran.

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  1. High Speed Hydrofoil Racing: Red Bull Foiling Generation World Finals

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  2. Catamaran Racing, News & Design

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  3. Sail GP: Sydney 2019 preview

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  4. FP Essentiel: "Friendly Foiling"

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  5. Oracle launches AC45 'T' #3 , new foils & new Wing

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  6. Nouveau circuit mondial SailGP : rendez-vous à Sydney en février 2019

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  1. SuperFoiler Grand Prix

    More news. SuperFoiler Grand Prix is the 'F1' of hydrofoil sail-racing. There is no other entertainment product like it in the world. The SuperFoiler is a highly advanced, purpose-built machine that drives unrivalled performance. The world's best sailors agree that our IP and ambition exemplify leadership in the new combined dimension ...

  2. SailGP launches ticket sales for Australia Sail Grand Prix I Sydney

    SYDNEY - September 27, 2021 - In one of the first major global sporting tournaments to return to Sydney since the outbreak of the pandemic, the world's most exciting racing on-water - SailGP - returns to Sydney Harbour this December. Tickets are on sale now for the event of the summer, taking place on 17-18 of December.

  3. SailGP

    The Official Website of SailGP - get the latest sail racing news, calendar, results, rankings and schedule. ... Sydney. 24 - 25 Feb 2024. View Results. Event 9 Next Christchurch. 23 - 24 Mar 2024. Event Info. Get Tickets. Event 10 - On sale soon Bermuda. 4 - 5 May 2024. Event Info.

  4. SailGP returns to Sydney Harbour for record fifth time next February

    The world's most exciting race on-water - SailGP - returns to Sydney for a record fifth time over the weekend of 24 and 25 February 2024. The stunning Sydney Harbour will host the exhilarating eighth event of the thirteen-stop global championship, which visits iconic cities around the world including San Francisco, New York, Auckland, and ...

  5. Sail GP Australia 2021: Formula 1 on the water.. (just change Final

    Sydney, AUSTRALIA - December 18, 2021 - Tom Slingbsy delivered when it mattered for his Australia SailGP Team. Dominating the final race after an inconsistent weekend of results, the home team claimed victory in the Australia Sail Grand Prix presented by KPMG to secure its place in the Season 2 Grand Final in San Francisco, March 26-27.

  6. A wild ride on the $6m Aussie SailGP race catamaran

    A wild ride on the $6m Aussie SailGP race catamaran. ... saying it was unlikely we would even "foil". It takes a wind of 9 or 10 km/h to lift the hull out of the water, even with the massive ...

  7. SailGP: World's top drivers set to fly on Sydney Harbour

    A new type of hydrofoil will be added next year, giving a predicted top speed of 110 km/h, and good winds in Sydney could allow the F50s to break the 100 km/h barrier for the first time during a race.

  8. Australia SailGP headed to Sydney in February

    The most exciting racing on water arrives for the KPMG Australia Sail Grand Prix | Sydney on 18-19 February 2023. Witness the world's best sailing athletes from nine nations go to battle in flying F50 foiling catamarans on Sydney Harbour.

  9. SailGP 2024 Sydney: What is SailGP, how to watch, start time, prize

    The current SailGP record is 53.96 knots or 99.94 km/h. Next year, the foils will be replaced by a new model made out of titanium - and they expect speeds up to 110km/h or 59 knots. If you don ...

  10. Sailing 'On the Edge of Control': Inside the Extreme Speeds of SailGP

    According to SailGP, the F50 takes its design cues from the AC50 catamarans that were used in the 2017 America's Cup, but with improvements to the hydrofoil design that reduce resistance and ...

  11. KPMG Australia Sail Grand Prix

    Cost. Witness the world's best sailing athletes from nine nations battle it out at electrifying speeds in flying F50 foiling catamarans on one of the world's best harbours for Season 3 of SailGP. The most exciting racing on water, KPMG Australia Sail Grand Prix takes place over the weekend of 18-19 February 2023 showcasing the best Sydney ...

  12. WATCH: How do the foils of SailGp's high speed F50 catamaran work?

    SailGP's high speed, foiling F50 is the culmination of 10 years of development in high performance, multi-hull racing. The F50's cutting edge technology is evident in its status as the first boat to hit 99.94 km/h during racing - and it has a top speed of over 100 km/h. But how does the F50 fly above the water and how to teams work together ...

  13. SailGP returns to Sydney Harbour for record fifth time next February

    The world's most exciting race on-water - SailGP -returns to Sydney for a record fifth time over the weekend of 24 and 25 February 2024. The stunning Sydney Harbour will host the exhilarating eighth event of the thirteen-stop global championship, which visits iconic cities around the world including San Francisco, New York, Auckland, and Los ...

  14. How SailGP's foiling F50 catamarans sail so much faster ...

    How SailGP's foiling F50 catamarans sail so much faster than the wind. Jonathan Turner. January 8, 2023. Arguably the most technologically advanced sailboats on the planet right now, the one-design SailGP F50 foiling catamarans are capable of breathtaking speeds - at times, reaching four times the velocity of the wind that drives them.

  15. Sail GP: how do supercharged racing yachts go so fast? An engineer explains

    An F50 catamaran preparing for the Sail GP series recently even broke this barrier, reaching an incredible speed of 50.22 knots (57.8mph) purely powered by the wind. This was achieved in a wind of ...

  16. SailGP Sydney

    The high-tech, high-speed action features the sport's best athletes racing in identical hydrofoiling F50 catamarans flying at speeds approaching 100 km/h. Official SailGP Spectator Boats will get you into the heart of the action on Sydney Harbour inside the public exclusion zone.

  17. Sail GP: T Foils to replace TNZ 3pt system

    Sail GP : T Foils to replace TNZ 3pt system. "Old news" from Nov 23, but quite a change for the 3pt foiling system introduced by Team New Zealand at San Francisco Americas Cup. The T foil has been used for a while, even tested for C-Class racing in the past (without success) and later was adopted in foiling cats by Michele Petrucci's S9 ...

  18. Public Boater Information

    Over the weekend you will see the nine international SailGP teams and their F50 foiling catamarans on Sydney Harbour training and racing. One of the fastest sailing boats in the world, these impressive vessels measure 50 feet/15 metres in length and can travel at speeds of up to 100 km per hour.

  19. F50 Hydrofoils: Racing The World's Most Advanced Sailboats

    08:43. With razor-sharp hydrofoil catamarans that help them hit speeds of 60 miles an hour, the athletes of SailGP are pushing the limits of physics and human endurance.

  20. SailGP 2023: Racing at nearly 100km/h and falling off a $5.8 million

    The global catamaran racing event known as SailGP makes its pitch as Formula One on water but that undersells one key aspect: it's possibly even more dangerous than driving a car at 300km/h ...

  21. F1X Foiling Catamaran

    The F1x A-class foiling catamaran is the ultimate, aerodynamic, super fast foiling racing boat. Order your foiling multihull now at DNA Performance Sailing. De Serpeling 10, 8219 PZ Lelystad +31 (0)320 28 18 77 . [email protected] ... Foils The rudders and daggerboard foils used on the F1x A-class foiling catamarans are produced with the ...

  22. Australia Sail Grand Prix: Sydney Information, Tickets, Live Stream and

    Highlights. Results. Australia claimed its first Season 4 win by triumphing over ROCKWOOL Denmark and New Zealand in an action-packed, three-boat Final on Sydney Harbour. A dominant performance on home waters throughout the weekend saw the Aussies qualify for the Final alongside the Kiwis and ROCKWOOL DEN, with France once again falling short ...

  23. SailGP Explained

    Learn all you need to know about SailGP, plus how Sail Racing works and key information about the F50 catamaran Skip to Main Content. Christchurch 23 - 24 Mar 2024. 00. Days: 00. Hours: 00. Minutes: 00. Seconds ...