Spring Point Score, Races 9 & 10PRO Andrew Cox reports:There’s nothing like a tricky easterly to open up the field in a sailing race on Sydney Harbour.The breeze flicked capriciously from left to right and back again throughout the afternoon, putting the race management team through their paces. After resisting over-rotation of the course to the left during a pre-race rain squall, the score was 1-0 to the race management team. But the breeze had the last laugh (as it tends to do) when a massive right shift rendered the last beat or two of the second race somewhat over-skewed the other way.The ILCA 6s and 4s did not disappoint, with the requisite general recall required in each race before a well-behaved black flag restart each time. The ILCA 7s maintained more appropriate decorum – as expected from a generally older, certainly larger, and debatably wiser cohort – with the
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