Text updates direct from the penultimate days' racing on the Kiel Week race courses

(Timings are local - all results provisional)

1631: Finn
Race 8: Matt Howard crosses in second to push him back up to sixth place overall - on equal points with fifth

1614: Tornado
Race 10: A first for McMillan and Howden in race ten - their first of the week - sees them within nine points of Australian series leaders, Bundock and Ashby

1558: 2.4mR
Race 11: Megan Pascoe is the first Brit across the line, finishing fifth.  Helena Lucas is seventh and Michael Cogswell eighth

1555: 470 Men
Race 11: McGovern and Mapplebeck are 19th

1544: Finn
Race 7: Race seven sees a ninth for Matt Howard, an 11th for Mark Andrews and 12th for Ed Greig

1533: Laser Radial
Race 12: Dobson posts a 31

1522: Tornado
Race 9: A fourth from the first day's race for Skandia Team GBR's McMillan and Howden

1459: Laser
Race 11: A good start to the final series for Paul Goodison, whose second from the race puts him up to first overall.  Nick Thompson will suffer from his 31st, as races from the final series cannot be discarded

1428: Laser Radial
Race 11: Charlotte Dobson scores a second

1426: 2.4mR
Race 10: Lucas can't quite keep the pressure on - she's sixth in race 10, with the series leader now 20 points ahead

1423: 470 Men
Race 10: A 21st for Jonny McGovern-Tom Mapplebeck

1352: 49er
Race 11: Transitional squad sailors Evans and Peacock, in seventh overnight, post a 17th in their opening race of the day

1335: 2.4mR
Race 9: Helena Lucas is fourth in the first race on Saturday, Megan Pascoe crosses in sixth, and Michael Cogswell in ninth

1310: Finn
Race 7: The Finn sailors get away under a black flag start

1310: 49er
Race 11: Racing gets underway for the 49er gold fleet

1306: Laser Radial
Race 11:  Winds have built to 10-12 knots on Echo course, allowing the Laser Radials to start

1235: 2.4mR
Race 9: After a postponement through light winds at the start of Saturday's racing, the 2.4mR class on India course is the first to get underway