Paul Snow-Hansen and Dan Willcox will look to win tonight's medal race to finish the 470 world championships in Greece on a good note after they dropped out of medal contention overnight (NZ time).
The Kiwi pair went into the penultimate day in fourth but a 27th on the third and final race overnight saw them drop to ninth and out of medal contention.
It was an unfortunate result for last year's world championship silver medallists who had otherwise sailed a consistent regatta with eight top-10 scores. But they were left rueing a disqualification from one race when they were trapped between two boats and caught over the startline, meaning every other score counted because they had used up their discard.
They were 10th and 13th in the days other races.
"In the first two races we executed pretty well and scored two keepers but got our tactics wrong in the third race and couldn't find a way to catch up," Willcox said. "Unfortunately, we didn't end the way we wanted to today and we have dropped back to ninth.