Tauranga yachts Windarra and Open Country are looking to finish the third leg of the SSANZ Round North Island race at Napier today.
At 9am, Open Country's spider tracker showed Adrian McHardy and Don King well round Cape Kidnappers and reaching for Bluff Hill.

Windarra is en route to Napier.

Windarra, with Will Horne and Iain Gifford on board, was still tacking into the strengthening northerly south of the Cape.
The leading boats finished the 205 nautical mile third leg on Thursday afternoon, less than 24 hours after starting in Wellington late Wednesday afternoon.
There were 21 starters for the third leg, 38 boats started from Auckland. They were culled in the gruelling second leg with injuries and exhaustion taking their toll as the fleet batted head winds and high seas down the North Island's exposed west coast.
Two more yachts, Clear Vision and Caper, withdrew at the start of the third leg in Wellington, as the yachts struggled to leave their Marina in wind gusts of up to 50 knots.
The boats have a minimum 48-hour stopover in Napier before the restart of the last leg, from Napier back to Auckland, probably on Sunday.
First yacht home on the third leg is the Cookson 50 Akatea, finishing just after 3pm.

The second boat to finish the Napier leg is the 9m Karma Police designed by skipper Rob Shaw. It is 20 feet shorter than Akatea and sailing in the next division down.

Karma Police was also second on the first leg and fourth into Wellington.