Comments on: Sailing Photo Quiz

By: damian.admin

damian.admin — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 22:05:40 +0000

Just to confirm the answers:

1. Front Row – Ben Ainslie, Jon Gorrod; Back Row – David Lenz, Rob Vincent, Robert Wilson
2. Weymouth Sailing Club
3. 1989
4. It’s relevant because the Olympic Classes are sailing at the same venue this coming week
5. It might have been more relevant because Ben Ainslie was sailing at the LVACWS that weekend, and Rob Wilson is a coach for Land Rover BAR
6. I was sailing in that regatta, so the answer is obvious.

By: damian.admin

damian.admin — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 21:28:38 +0000

In reply to Tim Lord.

Johnny Gorrod was 3360.

They say people tend to remember traumatic experiences more clearly – and that Liverpool-Arsenal result was pretty traumatic alright.

By: Tim Lord

Tim Lord — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 21:20:17 +0000

Was Gorrod 3059? Am guessing really.
Re the date, I vividly remember those championships started the day after Liverpool lost to arsenal on the last day of the 1989 season… Must have got the length of the event wrong. Why I can remember that, while frequently forgetting why I went upstairs, is another story.
Fair play to tillerman on the others.

By: damian.admin

damian.admin — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 21:10:36 +0000

Nearly out to lunch (or my brother) has filled in the gaps, and showed admirable restraint in not answering before now.

He is also shockingly accurate – I only know where he’s gone wrong because I have the results in front of me.

But, as he’s my brother, I still take great pleasure in pointing out where he is wrong.

1. Johnny Gorrod’s sail number is incorrect – fancy another guess? Ainslie was 3359, and David Lenz (not Lent, but i’m guessing that was a typo) was 3280.
2. Yep
3. I’m pretty shocked to say that he was one day out – the event was from 27th to 30th May, and the photo was taken at the end of the championship.
4. No, but good guess. See Tillerman above for the correct answer
5. Ditto
6. Whatever.

By: Nearly out to lunch

Nearly out to lunch — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 20:57:37 +0000

*lenz, not Lent. I have a particularly devout autocorrect.

By: Nearly out to lunch

Nearly out to lunch — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 20:55:20 +0000

Will attempt without reading the other answers…
1 – Rob Vincent (3243), Rob Wilson (3126), Johnny Gorrod (3016), Ben Ainslie, David Lent (can’t remember the sail numbers, dammit)
2 – Weymouth sailing club
3 – may 1989… 29th?
4 – it’s the world optimist championship
5 – that’s when the qualifiers were?
6 – trick question – I didn’t sail that year.

By: damian.admin

damian.admin — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 20:48:42 +0000

Lesley – Rob will definitely know who the rest of the guys are.

Tillerman – that’s some impressive deducing – it was the 1989 Weymouth Optimist Selection Trials.

The only things that haven’t been got are the three remaining sailors.

Unknown 1 gets mentioned in Ben Ainslie’s biography, and I believe he also worked/works as a sailmaker for North Sails

Unknown 2 relates to the America’s Cup World Series because he works for Ben Ainslie’s team

Unknown 3 is virtually impossible to get, but he won the event, and then won it again in 1990 (I think (99% sure…))

By: Tillerman

Tillerman — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 20:35:17 +0000

The ISAF Sailing World Cup Weymouth and Portland starts this Wednesday. So I am guessing Weymouth as the location for the photo.

And the 1989 UK Optimist Selection Trials were held at Weymouth so I am guessing that was the event.

By: Lesley Vincent

Lesley Vincent — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 20:33:13 +0000

Rob will know who the crest are,

By: damian.admin

damian.admin — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 20:12:24 +0000

Bingo! So:
1. Back Row – Unknown 1, Rob Vincent, Unknown 2; Front Row – Ben Ainslie, Unknown 3
2. Not got yet
3. 1989
4. Not got yet – but will help with the location
5. America’s Cup World Series – this would also help with Unknown 2 in the back row…
6. Damian.