Brian Thompson (born 5 March 1962) is a British yachtsman.
James Lloyd Ashbury (1834 – 3 September 1895) was a British yachtsman and Conservative Party politician.
Peter Pye (1902 – 3 September 1966), Dr Edward Arthur (Peter) Pye.
 MRCS, LRCP, was a British yachtsman, author and doctor.
Sir Charles Benedict Ainslie, CBE (born 5 February 1977) is an English competitive sailor.
Jimmy Cornell is a Romanian-born British yachtsman, bestselling author and the founder of the World Cruising Club.
John Ridgway, MBE, (born 1938), is a British yachtsman and rower.
Rodney Stuart Pattisson, MBE (born 5 August 1943) is an English yachtsman.
 He is a double Olympic gold medalist in sailing won at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and 1972 Munich Olympics all in the Flying Dutchman class.
 He also won a silver medal at the 1976 Montreal Olympics in the same class to become Great Britain’s most successful Olympic yachtsman until Ben Ainslie overtook him with 3 gold medals and a silver medal at four different Olympic Games at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
 Pattisson was a member of Itchenor Sailing Club.
Nigel King is a British yachtsman who has competed in several Volvo Ocean Races, the Jules Verne Trophy, Olympic trials and other classic yacht races around the world.
Alex Thomson (born 18 April 1974 in Bangor, Wales) is a British yachtsman.
Keith White is a British yachtsman.
 In October 2015 he set out on a non-stop solo circumnavigation of the world in his yacht, the "Marathon", in part to raise funds for charity.
 White, who is disabled, lost the use of his left arm in 1991 due to a road traffic accident.
 A sailor since he was 16 years old, he has achieved some significant firsts with his circumnavigation of the UK and Ireland, and his circuit of the Atlantic.

Question: In what Olympics did the greatest Great British yachtsman since Sir Aineslie, CBE, win silver?
Answer: 1976 Montreal Olympics