Originally Posted by rexdenton
Originally Posted by phill
I'm rather surprised that there are people that see including a mixed team in the multihull as a bad thing.

I don't get it either. The strength argument doesn't cut it for me-sure sailing can be tiring after a day, but apart from the abuse on hands the strength required doesn't even come close to competitive biking, triathlons, or swimming, (or frankly, my daily workout routine, and I'm an old fart).


I think its ok to have the mixed discipline.

I want to make it clear that my arguments are around the roles of each crew member and how that relates to their strengths. The Men will for the much greater part be taking on the crewing role for the reasons I have outlined before. In this configuration (female skipper and male crew) the teams will be competitive with other teams in the same configuration.

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