Sailing is a niche sport, will always be a niche sport and should be packaged and promoted as a niche sport. It's match racing with guts, sailed in dinghys, and everyone goes for the throat, rather than playing mind games. Moreover, in team racing, you get more judges on the water, which in the US should generate interest. Plus, it's cheap. You can sail them away that day.
Team racing as it's practiced currently, is co-ed.
This is perfect size for 3 normal sized guys and 3 normal sized girls. All right, reality is I know there is a little while to go before this catches on to the point that I could seriously tell everyone I think it should be an Olympic discipline, but in the 1999 Worlds, there were 18 teams from 13 countries. Although I recognize that the world won't change just because one guy says so, it seems to me that ISAF misses the point in putting so many classes in the Olympics. I think this is in very bad form - the delegates who travel to these functions put in an immense amount of time and effort and make the best decisions they feel will benefit the sport. Zack Leonard discusses how improve your downwind performance and technique in part three of his story on the SailNet website.