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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.

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.

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.

New Zealand's second SailGP event came to an exhilarating conclusion on the Lyttelton Harbour at the weekend, signalling the latest of several major sailing events to look forward to in 2024.
 

The Aon national youth programme is a key checkpoint on many young sailors' road to the Olympic Games - and an important tool in retaining athletes who may otherwise be lost to the sport.

Over 130 women on 22 boats took to the waters for another successful Evolution Sails Women on Water Weekend (WOWW) hosted by Gulf Harbour Yacht Club.