Light winds throughout the majority of the day meant that only one race was possible for both the men’s and women’s events.

The latter saw the Dutch pairing Afrodite Zegers-Kyranakou and Anneloes Van Veen come to the fore.

After fourth and 10th places in opening races of the regatta on Monday (February 22), the duo wasted no time in hitting the front of the field and showed impressive speed to remain clear to take the win.

“It was not something extreme today, just for the first time we took a good start and then we just did what the coach taught us to do," said Zegers-Kyranakou.

“You know it was just normal, it was not something spectacular.

“It was a big step for us to have a good start, as yesterday we were battling a lot to keep up in the race.

“There’s a long way to go and we will just keep going.”

The victory put the team onto a total of five points, with their highest score currently discarded, but they share the position with two American crews.

Overnight leaders Annie Haegar and Briana Provancha remained on the points tally after discarding their 16th  place finish today and their team-mates Sydney Bolger and Carly Shevitz added a fourth to a race win on the opening day.

Defending champions Lara Vadlau and Jolanta Ogar are well positioned in sixth position on the leaderboard, with pair just four points off the pace.

Leadership of the men’s event remains unchanged.

New Zealand’s Paul Snow-Hansen and Daniel Willcox are still in front, courtesy of their two races wins yesterday.

The pairing were able to discard their disqualification today, having crossed the start line prior to the race beginning.

Defending champions Mat Belcher and Will Ryan had experienced the same issue yesterday but set about making amends by claiming the day’s race win.

It moved the Australians into 11th place overall and 20 points adrift of the leaders tally of two.

The duo, however,  will be hopeful of further closing the gap as the week progresses.

Currently Sweden’s Anton Dahlberg and Fredrik Bergström occupy second position on six points and South Africa’s Asenathi Jim and Roger Hudson are third on nine.