I don't know what that means.
This big blue and white sail is a gennaker
Different from a spinnaker, which is a symmetric sail and as such is easier to handle. Spinnaker is normally set on a boom. Because it's symmetric it has no front or back and can be used in any direction.
The gennaker looks a bit like a spinnaker but there's this big difference that the sail is asymmetric, which means the front must always be in the front, understand yes?
The front of the sail is attached to a bowsprit and the back end has a sheet, in which you control the tension of the sail. This is an extremely powerful sail that pull like 5 horses (at least in windy conditions that we had on Friday ), The sheets go two or three turns on a winch, these winches are manual, so some other people will do the grinding on the winches on my command whenever I need to get more tension.... Well, even if we uses winches, this is very heavy and hard work. So I had the pleasure of doing this "work on the sheets from the gennaker" all the way... which is the reason why I now do have an overload tension injury in my left hand... bruises and scratches..... but that's just signs of good sailing
I have sailed regattas since I was a little boy, but the gennakers are the most difficult sails I ever encountered....
Exhausted after very hard regatta today, with winds exceeding 30 knots today, tough conditions, big waves, blue sky and sun
Let me know if I need to add more explanations... and I will, late now and I need to go to bed.....
Nighty-nighty all
And, well sometimes I can't follow my own advice.....
I think it means that he was steering the boat the entire time.
When I wasn't running the gennaker, I was steering the boat
