Gemma Jones and Jason Saunders endured a "frustrating" day at the Nacra 17 world championships in France overnight (NZ time) which included broken gear but they did well to limit the damage and are only one point off third.
The Kiwi pair broke an outhaul off the start line in their third race, meaning they had to stop and fix the problem, but recovered well and made their way through the fleet to finish seventh. It came on the back of a 14th in their first race, which is presently their discard, and a third and they are seventh overall after two days at the world championships.
But it's incredibly tight at the top with only six points between second and 10th. The Danish pair of Lin Ea Cenholt Christiansen and Christian Peter Lubeck, who won the recently world championships test event in Aarhus, hold a six-point lead over Ben Saxton and Katie Dabson of Great Britain in second.
"It so close on points so it will come down to gold fleet racing when anything can change," Jones said.
The teams are scheduled to have three more qualifying races overnight before the top half of the 47 boats move through into gold fleet.
