Reigning world champion 470 sailors Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie have made a slow start to the ISAF World Champs in Santander in Spain.
The Kiwis have had a seventh and a fifth in their first two races to sit eighth overall.
There was no sailing in the Laser and Laser Radial fleets due to a lack of wind.Natalia Kosinska is up to eighth in the women's RSX windsurfing after a third today.
Jon Paul Tobin has finished ninth and is 16th in the men's fleet.