Answer: Because we have NO World championships that mandate MIXED. Our current pinnacle are OPEN WORLDS... pick your class.

Singing Kumbaya and inventing a new Mount Olympus called MiXED MULTIHULL RACING is a new one that ONLY ISAF believes they can sell to the IOC.

ISAF and votes.... err... right... the back room works it's magic again. 5 and 5 was the ideal initial proposal. Everyone recognized that women's multihull had no constituency so that would be a problem. (I know I wrote about the problem at the time). BUT... Who would have thought they would come up with MIXED as a solution? As an interested bystander... I heard of mixed just a month or so ago...

Bottom line.... Booo!... (It's Halloween)