Olympic champion Tom Burton heads a group of Australians near the top of the Laser class standings at the sailing world championships off Denmark.
Burton won race four and is in third place amid a field of 165 boats after the second day.
Teammates Luke Elliott and Matt Wearn are two points further back, Finn Alexander is 12th and Mitch Kennedy 16th.
Australia's big guns in the 470, Mat Belcher and Will Ryan, moved up from 10th overnight to fourth and are six points shy of leaders Anton Dahlberg and Fredrik Bergstrom of Sweden.
"We had two different pressure systems come through right and left and you had to really hedge one side or the other. To come away with a second and a fourth is pretty good," Belcher said.
"The format's a little bit different, we spend about 60 per cent of the event in qualifying.
"So we're really looking forward to tomorrow off, trying to recharge and recover the best that we can and then starting the actual event, I guess.
"We're in a pretty good position, pretty close. ... The points are super close, which you would expect in qualifying, so we'll just keep doing what we're doing and hopefully that's going to be enough in a couple of days to put ourselves in a good position coming in to the medal race."
Racing got underway for the 49erFX and 49er classes.
David Gilmour and Joel Turner are seventh after winning race 2 while, in the FX, Amelia Stabback and Ella Clark are ninth.
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