When I was young I sailed and raced dinghies and skiffs. This is a fairly cerebral sport that usually requires a great working knowledge of the physics invovle

When I was young I sailed and raced dinghies and skiffs. This is a fairly cerebral sport that usually requires a great working knowledge of the physics invovled in making boats with sails go fast. Most of the champions I observed were really smart kids in other regards, but every so often I would see regatta winners that were not 'smart' people in any academic sense, but who had what appeared to have an inate ability to rig and sail a boat as fast as possible. This is not a trivial thing, and I am talking about people who would have likely failed a highschool level physics class on the same topic. Is this a type of genius too?