Andy Cassell

Andy Cassell, in full Andrew Cassell, lived from 14 July 1942 to 18 March 2025 and was a British Paralympic sailor who won gold at the 1996 Summer Paralympics, where the sport made its Paralympic debut. Born in East Sussex and later resident in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, he had sailed for decades and worked for the sailmakers Ratsey and Lapthorne. He was an early advocate of including sailing in the Paralympics, and in 1996 he founded the Andrew Cassell Foundation, which bought a fleet of Sonar keelboats used to introduce thousands of disabled people to sailing. He died from sepsis following heart surgery, aged 82.