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As the starters' gun fires in the country's largest keelboat regatta this week, three generations of Ferris women will race together for the very first time - writes Suzanne McFadden of newsroom.co.nz. 

Organisers of the Ports of Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta are encouraging keelboat owners to support the event, in light of low numbers in the modern keeler divisions.

A summer job is a common scenario for a lot of students and it helped Veerle ten Have take out the New Zealand slalom windsurfing title recently.

Local knowledge often proves the difference at the Lawson’s Dry Hill New Year Regatta in the Marlborough Sounds but this year overall honours was taken out by Kaimai Flyer from the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron.

Maraetai is known as "the meeting place by the sea" and for three days later this month will play host to more than 300 young sailors as part of the Auckland championships.

Justina Kitchen is back in a world she didn’t think she would occupy again.

It’s a world of speed, excitement and high stakes and, if things go to plan, recognition and rewards.

Anyone gazing out onto the waters around the Royal Akarana Yacht Club over the last couple of months would have noticed boats from a handful of different countries buzzing around and it’s something that’s only going to become more common this year.

Rex Sellers feels a bit like a taxi driver about to hang up the keys, but it wouldn’t really be a surprise if he jumped back in the cab.

Sellers has been sailing this week with his son, Brett, at the Tornado world championships which wrapped up at Takapuna today.

One club had more reason than most to celebrate results at the recent Tanner and Tauranga Cups sailed at the Evans Bay Yacht & Motor Boat Club in Wellington.