Mr Campbell was a well-known Holyhead businessman

Coroner Dewi Pritchard-Jones recorded a verdict of accidental death on Mark Campbell, 48, who drowned off Holyhead.

He said he hoped others would learn the lesson of wearing a lifejacket.

But he added that he remained opposed to the compulsory wearing of lifejackets and the extension of a "police state" to sailing.

Mr Campbell, from Trearddur Bay, died last June.

He had been thrown into the water as the boat pitched and rolled.

The commodore at Holyhead sailing club had been at the helm of the boat.

Mr Pritchard-Jones said if Mr Campbell had a lifejacket he would have stayed afloat until a boat picked him up from the sea.

He had been doing something he enjoyed and knew the risks.

"Unfortunately on that particular evening his luck was out," the coroner remarked

Two of his companions jumped in to try to help him, but Mr Campbell, an experienced sailor, died after being airlifted to Ysbyty Gwynedd by RAF helicopter.