Alex Maloney and Molly Meech put aside their first day frustration to climb the leaderboard at the 49erFX World Cup final in Santander yesterday.
The Olympic silver medallists sat in the unfamiliar position of 13th in the 15-boat fleet after day one. It was an inflated position after their boat was deemed underweight when measured before competition started, meaning they copped a 50 per cent penalty to their day one scores.
Maloney and Meech won the first race of day two and backed it up with a seventh and fifth to sit on 37 points and eighth overall at the invitation-only regatta.
Leaders Charlotte Dobson and Saskia Tidey of Great Britain have 16 points but the top six teams are all within six points of each other.
The Kiwis are competing in their first major regatta since last year's Rio Olympics and are keen to continue to move up the points ladder.