Landy's portrait

I asked the best sailors of the Euro to talk about their life as sailors, here is Landy's answer:

Starting sailing when I was 6 in a sabot, by the age of 12 I was racing the adults in my fathers NS14. When I was 18 my father and I built my first Moth. The first worlds was a disaster but the the next one I won. After that my focus moved to Olympic classes. I continued to sail the Moth on the side and was always near the top in the class with my home made boats and sails.

In the Olympic classes I had a go on almost everything, including the Windsurfing, 470, Tornado and later the Star. I even had a Finn, but was smart enough not to get beaten up in that class.

My first A class was a boyer MK4 in 2000 but never got to race it, so I sold it to a Moth mate in England. 2005 I sailed an old Marstrom in Sanguinet which was 12kg's over weight. After that I was hooked but with all the Olympic sailing there was little time for the A class.

The Euro's was a great event for us with a 1 and 3 on the podium. Racing was quite tricky but we always had good wind and several different heat winners to keep it interesting. Like all regattas consistency paid off and I was fortunate not to make any big mistakes. The boat was perfect and the rig did everything I asked of it.

• Moth world Champion 1989
• Tornado European Champ 1996
• Tornado olympic silver 1996
• Tornado Europeans 3rd 2001
• Topcat K1 World champion 2005
• F18 worlds 3rd 2000 , 2006
• A class worlds 3rd 2009, 5th 2010, 4th 2011