Sailing: Snow-Hansen and Saunders in second

Jason Saunders and Paul Snow-Hansen. Photo / Joel Ford

Paul Snow-Hansen and Jason Saunders have come away from day two of the ISAF Sailing World Cup regatta Skandia Sail for Gold with two race wins in the men's 470 overnight (NZT), lifting them up to second place overall.

After day one's light winds, racing was back on schedule at the Weymouth Olympic sailing venue in England and the kiwi presence is starting to shape up.

New Zealand's men's 470 Olympic representatives Snow-Hanse and Saunders made a good recovery to win the first race, taking the lead on the second downwind leg by making the most of a gust of wind to overtake the world champion Australians and fourth-placed Croatians.

Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie also had a better day with a third and eighth place finish in their two races; they are up to fourth overall as they near the half-way mark of the event.

New New Zealand sailing team members Marcus Hansen and Josh Porebski continued to stay on fine form in the 49er fleet, completing every race inside the top 10, carding a seventh, ninth and 10th place finishes.

World championship silver medallists Peter Burling and Blair Tuke are on similar pace, only finishing one of day one's races outside the top ten. Overnight, the New Zealand Olympic 49er representative crew finished 10th, seventh and eighth in their three races.

As six races have been completed, the 49er fleets have been able to drop their worst scores, leaving Hansen and Porebski in 11th, and Burling and Tuke in 19th; the fleet, as always, is close on overall points, as only 10 points separate 10th from 20th.

It was a long day on the water for the three Kiwi laser men, only coming back to shore at 7:30pm after they and the finn, star and skud had completed three races each.

Andrew Murdoch claimed his spot inside the top ten, opening the day with a second place finish then a 10th and a fifth to leave him eighth overall after four races.

Sara Winther picked up an unfortunate black flag penalty in her first race today for being over the start line too early.

She will be able to drop this as her worst score after five races have been completed tomorrow.

Hamish Pepper and Jim Turner have stayed inside of the star top ten overall, with finishing places of seventh, 12th and 11th overnight, and Paralympic Kiwi skud 18 team Tim Dempsey and Jan Apel have moved up to seventh place overall after three top ten finishes.

Stephanie Hazard, Jenna Hansen and Susannah Pyatt will complete their round robin tomorrow, for now they stand with two race wins and seven losses.

Sail for Gold Standings - Day 2 (Race finishes in brackets)

2.4mR
8th Paul Francis(15, 5, 17, 10)
11th Brett Willcock (8, 6, 18, 17)

470 (men's)
2nd Paul Snow Hansen and Jason Saunders (9, 4, 1, 1)

470 (women's)
4th Jo Aleh and Olivia (Polly) Powrie (5, 15, 3, 8)

49er
11th Marcus Hansen and Josh Porebski (7, 6, 1, 7, 9, 10)
19th Peter Burling and Blair Tuke (3, 10, 14, 10, 7, 8)

Finn
12th Josh Junior (10,19, 11, 23)
28th Matt Coutts (11, 34, 32, 31)
38th Rob Coutts (19, 40, 39, 38)

Laser
8th Andrew Murdoch (15, 2, 10, 5)
13th Andy Maloney (15, 8, 17, 4)
19th Sam Meech (11, 17, 20, 8)

Laser Radial
54th Sara Winther (19, 26, BFD, 19)

RS:X (men's)
11th JP Tobin (19, 6, 14,9)

RS:X (women's)
11th Natalia Kosinska (9, 10, 14, 17)
26th Steffanie Williams (25, 31, 21, 16)

Skud 18
7th Tim Dempsey and Jan Apel (13, 7, 6, 10)

Star
10th Hamish Pepper and Jim Turner (8, 7, 12, 11)
Women's Match Racing
2 Win, 7 loss- Stephanie Hazard, Jenna Hansen, Susannah Pyatt