New Zealand's leading men were on the pace but Barbara Kendall suffered a slip-up when the RS:X board sailors made their first appearance at the world yachting championships in Portugal yesterday.
Multiple Olympic medallist Kendall was second in her opening race but 26th in the second in ficklelight winds on the Cascais inner course to be 25th overall.
In the men's fleet Jon-Paul Tobin was sixth and fourth to be ninth overall while New Zealand compatriot Tom Ashley was in 18th place after seventh and sixth-placed finishes.
Elsewhere, Andrew Murdoch continued his climb through the Laser fleet, improving one place to sixth after six races.
Murdoch managed eighth and ninth placings in breezes over 20 knots and his 23-point tally is just four points off second place.
Australian Tom Slingsby has a big leading margin notching two more wins this morning.
Jo Aleh took another giant leap up the Laser Radial leaderboard - from 31st to 13th - with eighth and seventh placings on the windy and bumpy outer course.
New Zealand needs a sailor to be within the top 19 countries in to qualify a Laser Radial boat for next year's Olympics.
In the Yngling class, a top-10 finish is needed to get to Beijing and Sharon Ferris, Raynor Smeal and Shandy Buckley are in a strong position, in sixth place.
They slipped from third overall after 15th and 14th placings.
"Everything that could break, did today," Ferris said. "We lost the jib halyard in the first race and the spinnaker pole topping lift in the second."
The Finns managed only one race, with Dan Slater's ninth placing seeing him improve to 23rd overall.
