Name: Koen Raedschelders

Nick name: Doodle

Years sailing: 29

Years in Club: 3

Favourite knot: Figure Eight Knot. Definitely Figure Eight Knot.

Favorite boat: Laser number (secret); Vanguard number (secret)

Skipper or crew: Depends on the partner!

Most Memorable Sailing Experience: Vanguard, Canada Day Week 2009, with Robert Fougere.

Fantasy Voyage: One river especially, a might big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land.

Words to live by: Youth is life in the continuous present; life is youth on a motorcycle.