New Zealand's Paralympic sailing crew raced just once on day two of the regatta in tricky conditions, but have put themselves in good position to make a push for a medal.
A sixth place finish sees them lying fourth overall on the leader-board with plenty of racing yet to come.
Northland's Chris Sharp, part of the crew with Andrew May and Richard Dodson, said conditions were tough to navigate.
"It was really, really interesting. The weather conditions were phenomenally hard to judge and we had a day of surviving really in the sense of we were lying in third place and looking pretty reasonable, but there was a 45 degree shift to the right where there was no wind shown and a group of boats that came back into our fleet and pushed us back, so we ended up sixth," he said.
"But it was very, very hard to pick that, in fact I don't know how they did. We saw nothing. I honestly don't know what made them go that way other than they were behind so they needed to do something and it worked for them."