Just for fun!

You have met the " Isle of Man" team before so let's use their first names! Yes, that's right, Lin, Bill, Alan, Ashley, Jan, Diana and so on……Before you do the exercises below, make sure that you have a stopwatch handy.

TASK ONE
Using first names only, how fast can you put all the sailors in alphabetical order?
Yes, mix them all up, the Skipper, Core Crew and Leggers!

Lin Parker	37
Bill Ashton	54
Alan Bell	47
Ashley Carpenter	46
Jan Giffen	43
Diana Hunt	30
Philip Johnson	28
Derek Kalinski	53
Rebecca Legg	20
Nicolas Lipscomb	26
Gavin Macfadyen	28
Juanita McLaren-Brown	37
Eddie Shallcross	59
Robert Tobin	29

Robert Tobin	29
Juan Walters	39
Ralph Weisener	28
James Wilkins Jnr	40
William Revels	31
Gill Bowyer	35
Jack Jenkins	43
Lisa Rogers	42
Patrick Towle	38
Karen Marti	45
Martin White	32
Christopher Campbell	36
Fiona Leech	35
David Martin	43

Okay! That was the warm-up!

TASK TWO
Of course, if the whole team were living in the UK just before the race started and we were looking for each of them in a UK telephone directory, we would need to use their surnames, or last names. So this time, re-order them once more by surname. The first part has been done for you. Work even faster!

TASK THREE
What about their ages this time? Put them in descending order, the oldest to the youngest? Go for it!


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