"It felt like a really good day out on the water overall," said SAP Extreme Sailing Team's helm Adam Minoprio, whose team pulled off a convincing comeback after a painful mistake in race one. "The first race we messed up massively as we misheard the course on the radio, and thought that we had two laps, but there was only one. We gave away a win in that race and had to take fourth, which is really frustrating as it's three points that could come back to hurt us on the last day.
"The rest of the day went really well for us. I'm really happy we were able to jump in, in those extremely tricky conditions, and be consistently at the top," he added.
It was the Kiwi team's consistency that secured its second-place finish, with co-skipper and helm Chris Steele steering his team to five podium finishes, including one bullet, out of six races.
Phil Robertson's Oman Air had a mixed bag of results, including two wins, and just miss out on the podium due to a disqualification from the final race. Red Bull Sailing Team finish the day in fifth, 12 points off leader SAP Extreme Sailing Team.