I thought for a second SA had gone soft on me. You have restored my faith.Some time in the future you should let down his car tires, take a dump in his rope bag and mash it into the clutches and bang his wife.
Did you say "hold your course" at any time during this incident ? If you did, then he should have hit you, then protested you. Seriously though, was this just a wave by a random crewmember or was there some discourse like you hailing "cross " very loudly and clearly , then a wave by the helmsman ? Was this one design or phrf racing ?What do you do to the lame ass mother fucker who waived you on and then protests and says "oh, I didn't waive you on"
+1 when asked tack or cross always respond just duck me!