Just ask the Wauchope-Bonny Hills under-23 women's surfboat crew who will this weekend go the extra yards with a 1500-kilometre round trip.

On Saturday, they will try to make up a two-point deficit in the North Coast Surf Boat Series in Woolgoolga before they head to Sydney's Collaroy International Young Guns carnival on Sunday.

The team includes Emma Eggins, Jesse Willis, sisters Grace and Lucy Monaghan along with sweep Steve Monaghan.

Monaghan has previously admitted the team thrives on challenges and simply just love to compete, but now they have a few other ingredients thrown into the mix.

"They're starting to get jobs and a few boys are hanging around as well, so they're trying to fit everything into their life now," he said.

"But they love competing and training and chasing carnivals is part of it, so the fun factor is still there and they're very pleasant girls to be around so that makes it easy."

You can't imagine a weekend trip from the Hastings to Collaroy via Woolgoolga would be overly enjoyable, but it's what they do.

"(The travel) is not getting any easier; it's quite a chore," Monaghan said.

"Ideally we would have missed one of these carnivals, but if we don't go to Woolgoolga we'll lose too much ground on the leaders.

"They'll get too far in front and we won't be able to catch them so it's more or less a necessity for us to go there."

The Boatettes won the under-19 division at last year's event at Collaroy Beach and Monaghan admitted a podium finish in the under-23s could be difficult to achieve, but anything was possible.

Half of the Wauchope-Bonny Hills crew could still be competing in the under-19s.

"To go back to Collaroy and make a final would be ideal," Monaghan said.

"I don't expect to get on the podium because there are some very, very good under-23 ladies crews who have been in that division for three years.

"They're as good as open women's crews in Sydney."

Not only will the girls have to battle older, more experienced crews, they will have been on the road for most of the weekend.

Fatigue could be a factor, but the girls were looking forward to the challenge; it's when they often perform at their best.

"We'll try to manage them; it's an early start on Sunday morning which is going to hurt, but we'll hook into it and see how we go," Monaghan said.

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