That's only for youth teams, and I would have to agree with them. It's tough to make the youth minimum weight with a mixed or all female team. In the 2007 H16 Youth NAs, my daughter (14 years old) sailed with a 16 year old female skipper and they had to carry the maximum of 50 lbs of dead weight to make minimum weight. They were totally overpowered the first day when it was blowing 15+ kts.