49er skiff, Southwestern Yacht Club, San Diego / Wadlow and Rast: The mood turned tense for Tim Wadlow and Chris Rast even as they extended their lead with a 1-3-1 second day of sailing in winds swinging from 15 to 11 to 18 knots through the afternoon. At press time, after winning 4 of the 6 races so far, they were facing a protest filed against them by Morgan Larson and crew Pete Spaulding over a non-contact incident in Sunday's first race. Larson/Spaulding also had their second early start in two days and now carry two OCSs that will eat up their two discards due to kick in later. Veteran campaigners Dalton Bergan and Zack Maxam remain in second place after a strong 4-1-2 day. Rast said, "We like the conditions we're seeing right now. It's windy and a lot of teams had been practicing for light air." They might have been thinking ahead to Qingdao, the notoriously light Olympic venue. "But you have to get there first," Rast said. He and Wadlow overcame a poor start in the first race but nailed a jibe-set at the weather mark that set them up to fly from fifth to first downwind. ---Margo Hemond reporting  
 
Finn dinghy, Newport Harbor Yacht Club, Balboa / Darrell Peck: Survival is paramount when the wind gods start throwing curves the way they did Sunday. "It got crazy," said Darrell Peck, a 43-year-old class veteran from Gresham, Ore. "Big shifts and big holes." With a first and third in the 42-boat fleet, Peck took over first place from Zach Railey (12-1) by four points. After principal race officer Jeff Johnson delayed the start for 1 1/2 hours waiting for some stability, the breeze off Balboa built from 9 to 16 knots through the afternoon with wild swings to the right, including one that caused the second race to be abandoned on the first try. "I just sailed in the middle of the course and tried to look for the biggest winds," Peck said, describing how rivals playing one side or the other usually came to grief. Peck also had a plan coming in. "I re-optimized my boat and my body for light wind," he said. ---Jeff Johnson reporting
 
Star keelboat, California Yacht Club, Marina del Rey / Mendelblatt and Liljedahl: With unsettled and erratic wind across the board, this was the only West Coast venue to start on time Sunday, which allowed just enough time for the allotted two races before conditions turned impossible as the last boats finished. Mark Mendelblatt and crew Magnus Liljedahl remained in first place by eight points with an 8-1 day as George Szabo and Andrew Scott (7-3) settled into a second-place with the 1988-'92 silver and gold medalists, Mark Reynolds and Hal Haenel. The conditions with 8 to 10 knots of fickle breeze tested all of them. "The race committee did a fine job of getting the races in," Szabo said. "It was doing 20-degree shifts left and right and not where you're expecting them. We had to recover a few times and we got lucky a few times." Szabo, who sailed in a pre-Olympic in China last year, said that compared to Marina del Rey Sunday, "The wind at Qingdao was steady." ---Tom O'Conor reporting

Tornado multihull, San Diego Yacht Club / Daniel/Stunzi and Lovell/Ogletree: It's still a two-boat race after Robbie Daniel and crew Hunter Stunzi and three-time Olympians John Lovell and Charlie Ogletree swapped firsts and seconds for the second day, the latter winning by 1 minute 49 seconds after the former ruled by 54 seconds. One of their secrets: "We learned how to deal with San Diego's terrible kelp," Ogletree wrote in a pre-regatta report. "When you're going 20 knots, hitting a kelp island can make you very slow." ---Mike Foster and Jared Wohlgemuth reporting
 
470 dinghy, Men, Alamitos Bay Yacht Club/US Sailing Center, Long Beach, Calif. / McNay and Biehl: The secret to Stuart McNay and crew Graham Biehl's early success is apparent. "We have to keep sailing consistently," Biehl said after they followed Saturday's 2-2 score with a 1-2 Sunday. "It got us to where we are now." But it's easier said than done. Unstable breeze---not the norm at Long Beach---is proving difficult to handle for everyone, especially the race committee, which postponed the start of racing for 1 1/2 hours. "We haven't practiced in conditions like that," Biehl said. Another of the top teams, Mikee Anderson-Mitterling and crew Dave Hughes, were in second place but eight points back after a 6-3 afternoon. ---Rick Roberts reporting   
 
470 dinghy, Women, ABYC/USSC / Clark and Mergenthaler: No big deal, says Amanda Clark, who with crew Sarah Mergenthaler not only lead the women after two days but outsailed all the men in Sunday's first race and stand second in the combined fleet. "We do a lot of competing with the men," Clark said, "and for this event with only five [women's] boats it's better to be in a combined fleet because it's closer to what we'll have in China with only 18 boats." With the tricky conditions prevailing Sunday, Clark said, "We're looking upwind and making sure we're in the right place for whatever comes, and we're not taking any big chances. We're also trying to have fun. It's all for nothing if we're not enjoying ourselves." ---Rick Roberts reporting
 
RS:X sailboard, Men, ABYC / Mike Gebhardt: The only board sailor to be involved in every Olympics since the class was introduced at Long Beach in the 1984 Games is on top of his game again. Mike Gebhardt, 41, scored first and second places Sunday to take a three-point lead over early leader Robert Willis. Gebhardt's 20-year-old protégé, Ben Barger, also figures to be a factor once he discards Saturday's DSQ for sailing the wrong course. "I just needed to clean up my starts," Gebhardt said. "I haven't been racing much, but I'm back in the racing mode now." Gebhardt was silver medalist Scott Steele's tuning partner in '84, then won bronze and silver himself in '88 and '92 and continued to represent the U.S, in '96 and 2000. In 2004 he coached Gal Fridman to winning a gold medal for Israel. –-Rick Roberts reporting
 
RS:X sailboard, Women, ABYC / Kremer: The top four are fighting to define their competition. Lisa Kremer's early lead shrank to one point as rivals Farrah Hall and Nancy Rios swapped wins to share second place, one point ahead of Monica Wilson.
 

The leaders:
 
49er (13 boats; 3 of 24 races; protest pending): 1. Tim Wadlow (Beverly, Mass.)/Chris Rast (San Diego), 1-2-1-1-3-1, 9 points; 2.  Dalton Bergan (Seattle, Wash.)/Zack Maxam (Costa Mesa, Calif.), 2-4-3-4-1-2, 16; 3. Eric Storck/John Storck III (Huntington, N.Y.), 8-3-6-6-2-7, 32.  
               
Finn (42 boats): 1. Darrell Peck (Gresham, Ore.), 4-4—1-3, 12 points; 2. Zach Railey (Clearwater, Fla.), 1-2-12-1, 16; 3.  Geoffrey Ewenson (Annapolis), 2-3-10-4, 19.
               
Star (19 boats): 1. Mark Mendelblatt (St. Petersburg, Fla.)/Magnus Liljedahl (Miami, Fla.), 3-3-1-8-1, 16 points; 2. tie between George Szabo (San Diego)/Andrew Scott (Annapolis), 2-1-11-7-3, and Mark Reynolds (San Diego)/Hal Haenel (Los Angeles), 12-2-2-6-2, 24.
               
Tornado (6 boats): 1. Tie between Robbie Daniel (Clearwater, Fla.)/Hunter Stunzi (Charleston, S.C.), 1-2-2-1,  and John Lovell (New Orleans, La.)/Charlie Ogletree (Kemah, Tex.), 2-1-1-2, 6 points; 3. Colin Merrick (Portsmouth, R.I.)/John Sampson (Rumson, N.J.),  4-3-5-3, 15.
 
470 Men (8 boats; 2 of 16 races): 1. Stuart McNay (Lincoln, Mass.)/Graham Biehl (San Diego), 2-2-1-2, 7 points; 2. Mikee Anderson-Mitterling (Coronado, Calif.)/David Hughes (San Diego), 5-1-6-3, 15; 3. Charles Modica (Hobe Sound, Fla.)/Han Jensen (Duxbury, Mass.), 3-5-2-8, 18.  
               
470 Women (5 boats; 2 of 16 races): 1. Amanda Clark (Shelter Island, N.Y.)/Sarah Mergenthaler (New York, N.Y.), 1-1-1-2, 5 points ; 2. Molly Carapiet (Belvedere, Calif.)/Molly O'Bryan (San Diego), 2-3-2-2, 9; 3.  Erin Maxwell (Norwalk, Conn.)/Isabelle Kinsolving (New York, N.Y.), 3-2-3-3, 11.  
               
RS:X Men (6 boats): 1. Mike Gebhardt (Ft. Pierce, Fla.), 2-3-1-2, 8 points; 2.  Robert Willis (Chicago, Ill.), 1-2-5-3, 11; 3. Ben Barger (Tampa, Fla.), 8-1-2-1, 12.  
               
RS:X Women (7 boats): 1. Lisa Kremer (Worthington, Minn.), 1-2-2-4, 9 points; 2. tie between Farrah Hall (Annapolis, Md.), 4-1-4-1, and Nancy Rios (Miami, Fla.), 2-4-1-3, 10.  

Complete results
To follow the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Team Trials – Sailing, visit the event website at www.ussailing.org/olympics/OlympicTrials. Daily reports from the East and West coasts, results and photos will be posted during the event. Video from the event with commentary by Gary Jobson will be available daily on the website of the NBC network at www.NBCOlympics.com.
 
The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will take place August 8–24; the Paralympic Games take place September 6–17, 2008. Both the Olympic and Paralympic regattas will be held in Qingdao, China, a coastal city located 430 miles east of Beijing.