Hamish Pepper and Carl Williams have added another good result to their scorecard, finishing second in yesterday's race at the 2008 Star World Championship in Miami.
The New Zealanders are now 18th overall after four races with the discard likely to affect overall placings after the next race.Two more races are scheduled over the next two days to decide the title.
"Today the order of the day was Breeeeeezze. And as it was blowing offshore it was always going to be extremely shifty," said Carl Williams. "It's always hard on a really windy day in big regattas like this because every day you have to push hard and sail at your absolute limit."
Out of the 104 starters, 27 boats did not finish the day due to either damage or gear failure.
Pepper and Williams were third to the first mark and then improved into second place.
They rounded the bottom mark in second and the gap on the chasing pack diminished on the final leg so it was all on between a handful of boats to cross the line.
Italians Diego Negri and Luigi Viale lead the fleet going into the penultimate day of competition, with Mateusz Kusznierewicz and Dominik Zycki (Poland) and Fredrik Loof and Anders Ekstrom (Sweden) on equal points behind them.
Competitors can exclude their worst score when more than four races are completed, which means the line-up is likely to see some changes.
Provided Pepper and Williams perform well in race five, this will see them climb up the standings.
"There are two races left," said Williams, "and after tomorrow we get to drop the bad result, putting us right back up there."
