Team New Zealand tops the leaderboard going into the final day's racing at the latest MedCup yachting regatta in Sardinia with a fifth and a second place off Cagliari.
Four and a half points separates the regatta leaders from Artemis of Sweden.
Team New Zealand's Grant Dalton summarised it as "winning ugly" after emerging in second place from a mentally bruising second race which saw Artemis recover from 10th to steal three places at the bottom of the final run.
Artemis won the first race from start to finish.