girls or boys?

lol it depends on the girls. to be honnest I am stronger than most of my m8s (guys) and they actualy openly admit this, but I couldnt rig a laser properly last time i was sailing it, could have bin the saiing a week with no sleep that caused that lack of strength.

the problem as you move out of youth classes is the difference in weight means that guys tend to get an advantage which puts girls off. all it needs is a bit of encoragement for girls like first girls trophy then u got sumit to sail for.

knightmare your quite pritty so what is your reason? 

most of the girls i think struggle with weight aswell cos they would have to be massive if you were a girl to sail a 49er for issance.

I think that technique is becoming more important than strength, and many of the skiff type boats don't carry weight well.  So females are getting more on equal terms with males. 

Here's an example, a Laser mast and sail is not heavy but stepping it can be a difficult task in a breeze.  Grasp the mast well up from the base and then it won't be quite so top heavy and raise it so that the top mast is pointing into the wind.  Make sure you keep it exactly pointing into the wind and step over to the boat now raise the top and the wind is assisting you to get it upright.  Slot it into the hull before it goes vetical and as you begin to lose control you'll find it drops down into the hole - making you look pretty cool.  Doing it right is easy doing it badly can be impossible no matter how strong you are.

Yeah true Sea Falcon, we have no right to complain about it being hard sailing because we are girls.

thnx for the mast stepping advice. I can normaly do just about anythign like that but it was realy breezy, and I had been sailing non stop all summer. Also not used to laser, and wont be going in one again inthe near future.