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The Auckland marine community has joined efforts to support victims of Cyclone Gabrielle, collecting truckloads of essentials in only a few days that will be distributed in Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne.
The sea spray had hardly settled on a breathless national championship at the weekend before Alex Maloney and Olivia Hobbs were already turning their attention to the next checkpoint on their road to the Paris Olympic Games.
Most 24-year-olds would recoil at the thought of being disconnected from much of the outside world for days on end – let alone spending it confined to the same 9m x 3m area as their dad.
It has been three frustrating months for Lukas Walton-Keim, sidelined through injury and watching his road to the Olympic Games become steeper with each passing day.
The dress rehearsal to their season went off without too many hitches but Micah Wilkinson and Erica Dawson know there’s plenty to do before opening night.
Hundreds of Murrays Bay locals have answered calls to help clean up following the devastation of Cyclone Gabrielle – in what the local yacht club describes as “an unbelievable groundswell of support”.
A mishap in the last race of the second day has seen Micah Wilkinson and Erica Dawson slide down the Nacra 17 leaderboard at the 2023 Lanzarote International Regatta.
In the latest of a new regular feature shining the spotlight on the New Zealand yachting community – and the people at its heart – we talk to Thomas Fewtrell.
