Abbey, 17, the youngest, is the "next big hope in the family", as she prepares for her third youth world champs in Malaysia in December.
Ben, who returned from coaching Olympic 49er-class sailors in Busan, South Korea, a fortnight ago for two months, has competed three times at the youth worlds and his best finish was fourth.
The highlight of his career is competing two years alongside fellow Hawke's Bay yachtsman Sam Bullock in the two-person skip Olympic 49ers class.
They finished mid-table at the European Championship in 2013 in Aarhus, Denmark, as well as the World Championship in Marseille, France, in the two-year campaign.
Eighty teams were split into cuts of three fleets with Goodwin and Bullock, a former Napier Boys' High School pupil also pursuing a mechanical engineering degree at Auckland University, with the pair settling in the silver fleet.
"We were midfield which we are very proud of," says Goodwin, emphasising most 49ers are self-funded professionals.
For the Bay duo funds came primarily from coaching and parents.
"Our investment is high. In New Zealand, if you make the top 16 in the world champs then you receive financial support from High Performance Sport New Zealand and Yachting New Zealand."
Operating on a "shoestring budget" is difficult, considering they have bought two boats and had to ship to Europe where the pair transported it on the top of their Peugeot van through Spain, Italy, Denmark, Belgium, Sweden, Finland and the Netherlands.
"Our goal was to do that over the two years but, unfortunately, we didn't make the cut.
"It's a sad thing to say [lack of funds] but that's how it is," he says, likening it to the financial hurdles of Kiwis' equine pursuits in farflung parts of the world.
The former Lindisfarne College pupil, who was the HB Secondary Schools' Sportsman of the Year in 2008, moved to Auckland the following year to study and immediately took to Olympic sailing there.
Needless to say, the balancing act posed its own share of challenges.
"It's taking me longer to finish my degree so I had to push some semesters out while travelling to Europe," he says, reconciling the move with a sense of accomplishment in that he hasn't failed any exams yet.
In some respects taking up coaching at varsity from the time he got there was therapeutic.
"It fits in quite well with uni. You have flexibility with lectures to do some coaching and it's nice to get out on the water.
"It's nice to give something back to the sport as well," he says, of his stint with youngsters.
Mentoring slightly older South Koreans, who have minimal command of the English language, was mutually rewarding enough through an interpreter.
"I'm not sure about coaching as much fulltime," says Goodwin, who will focus on his engineering career after securing work with the university.
He still harbours a desire to work with specific teams to help them build up towards regattas.
"Maybe I'll carry on a little but in the long term I'm not as passionate as I am about engineering."
The sport has added value to his constitution and life skills.
"I've grown a lot as a person through my experiences as a coach and competitor," he says, revealing he left the Bay not overly confident to face the world away from the comforts of home.
"Seeing, travelling the world make home seem a lot smaller - any situation seems a lot smaller now," says Goodwin, finding varsity equally stimulating in asserting his independence.
While appreciative of different places and cultures, he always wants to come back to the Bay and New Zealand because nothing compares to them.
"If the opportunity arises I want to live in Hawke's Bay."
On reflection, the former boarder salutes Lindisfarne College for providing the ideal foundation for starting university.
"I'm still sailing under the Napier Sailing Club and Hawke's Bay is my home," says Goodwin who hopes to keep sailing in some capacity for a good part of his life.
