Paul Snow-Hansen and Dan Willcox have made a dream start to the 2016 470 World Championships with two race wins to lead the fleet after the opening day of the pinnacle Olympic class regatta which got underway today in Argentina.
In the women's fleet Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie placed sixth and 13th in their two races to hold ninth overall at the end of day one.
The 11am start to racing in San Isidro, Argentina was postponed until the light breeze built enough for the men's and women's 470 fleets to open the Championship which runs for six days until February 27.
"Race 1 for the 470 Women got underway soon after midday, but was abandoned after around 20 minutes due to a significant change of wind direction," describes the official report.
Racing got underway at around 2:30pm local time in a building easterly breeze and lasted into the late afternoon with two races sailed by both fleets.