They were hammered by 30-knot winds on the opening day of the 420 world championships but yesterday there was next to no breeze off Takapuna Beach.
Defending men's champions New Zealanders Carl Evans and Peter Burling qualified top with Simon Cooke and Scott Illingworth second. New Zealand nowhold seven of the top 10 spots.
The men's fleet is now split into a gold and silver section for the finals series, which begins tomorrow.
In the women's event New Zealanders Jo Aleh and Olivia Powrie retained the lead, picking up two thirds.
Fellow Kiwis Sarah Bilkey and Rosie Sargisson are in second place, securing a 12th and a fourth yesterday. They won a protest on the opening day - the committee agreeing they were not over the start line in the second race. As a result they started yesterday's racing with a share of the lead with Aleh and Powrie.
Today is a lay day with racing resuming tomorrow.
* The Daily Telegraph has reported Great Britain hopes to return to the America's Cup with a team spearheaded by leading Olympic figures, including triple medallist Ben Ainslie and Sir Keith Mills.
A formal announcement of a new team is expected to be made in London today. Ainslie, the reserve helmsman with Emirates Team New Zealand, and fellow gold medallist Iain Percy, skipper of the Italian +39 team, have already met to discuss a possible entry, but not before 2009.
