Sailor and designer Elise Beavis - an Emirates Team NZ Performance and Design Engineer - is also regular competitor on the foiling WASZP - America's Cup 2017

© Emirates Team New Zealand Addressing attraction and retention in Womens sailing
There was a very interesting statistic buried in the results of this year's Toyota New Zealand Optimist Nationals. Perhaps to the surprise of no-one there is a big drop-off in girls in sailing after their first year in the sport.