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By Kathy Catton

For 14-year-old Reija Treacy Wolnik, you could say adventure is in her blood.

When she was four, her family emigrated from Ireland to New Zealand. And at 11, she summited Mt Taranaki.

Yacht club members have just under two more weeks to have their say on the state of the sport in this country, by completing Yachting New Zealand's Voice of the Participant survey.

Yachting New Zealand's Corporate Sailing Day is an annual highlight on the calendar - and this year's edition did not disappoint.

They "bicker like old ladies" and have been the focus of competitors' scrutiny for much of the past decade, yet Craig Satterthwaite and Bart Bearda remain a seemingly unstoppable force in New Zealand sailing.

What are the New Zealand youth championships?

It is the pre-eminent youth regatta in the country and the ultimate opportunity for the sailors to put their hard work of the past season together.

Live Ocean Racing will be back in action next week, on the start-line for the 2024 opener of the ETF26 SERIES racing in Europe in one of the world’s most exciting foiling classes.

Two of New Zealand's top sailors were denied a final medal tilt as the breeze disappeared on the last day at the Princess Sofia Regatta.

Still, they will leave Palma encouraged by their progress as the build-up to the Olympic Games intensifies.

Isaac McHardie and Will McKenzie are thrilled to be selected to represent New Zealand at their first Olympic Games and are determined to stamp their own mark on the boat made famous by Peter Burling and Blair Tuke.
 

Logan Dunning Beck is doing his best to stay positive despite the cruel and abrupt end to his selection push for the 2024 Olympic Games.