English Channel Crossing

[Pentagon]

By what means did Jonathan Webb cross the English Channel in 1977?

[rja211077]

dunno but Captain Matthew Webb was the first person to swim the channel in 1875 - maybe it is a descendant of his doing the same 'in tribute' - maybe for the centenary but er...two years late

[Headtime]

This answer may not be helpful, but I Googled away and could find no reference to Jonathan Webb and the English Channel, I only came up with the same answer as Rja2.

However, when I first saw your question I immediately thought of the first human powered flight accross the Channel.

In 1979, Bryan Allen crossed the Channel in the Gossamer Albatros, a pedal-powered plane; http://heritage.dupont.com/touchpoints/tp_1979/ove
rview.shtml

So apart from the fact that the name and year don't match your question, could it be that your question setter is wrong? Other than that, I'm stumped.

[Quizmonster]

The only significant Jonathan Webb I can recall was the one who was kicker for the English rugby team in the 80s and early 90s, the then equivalent of today's Jonny Wilkinson - same Christian name it seems, oddly enough. He played full back, if I remember rightly, and is now a surgeon somewhere, as indeed he was then, in the good old days of amateurism.

The only significant Channel crossings he made were to play France and I guess he used the Cross-Channel Ferry!

Just as we nowadays get scorelines such as 'Wales 17/Wilkinson 20', so we used to get 'Webb' scorelines! Even then, England found try-scoring against significant opposition a great problem.