Well... you might ask Pease and Carolijn what the constraints are.... they seem to do well in the OPEN era. Their experience is very much counter to the Betsy Allison Old Fart point of view.

I don't hear the comments as negative to women participating in the Olympic Multihull at all. Make it open and pick suitable equipment... Open Multihull and OPen 470 events have integrity... Mixed do not.

Yes... most of the women racing catamarans are on Hobie 16's but opposing the H16 as a boat for this MiXED event is not equivalent to dissing women.