It was time flies that I got a phone call from Willem De Bruyn. Who is Michel? There he got married with a Chinese girl but now he felt it was time to come back to his roots, the origins of our sport. Not just on local or regional level he scores but he won on national level too.
So at first he pointed the area of Putte where we already find many national winners. What he mostly liked was the workshop at the back of the house, which was very suited to build a loft on.
A loft in shape of an L, like it was with the Huyskens-Van Riel colony and β¦most important build in an eastern direction.
The whole was bought at a Belgian prize and every fancier in the area told that it was impossible to play well on national level. At first it all had to be drawn perfectly and then they contacted Van Ostaeyen, who had to build the loft. I wanted everything to be perfect and I was rather demanding. I wanted an agreeable loft without draught but with a lot of oxygen.
In fact there were even more who wanted to help him but they hesitated. Of course at that time nobody knew what he was up to. But already very soon, Vanlint scared them of. He was the only Belgian fancier who succeeded to classify a bird within the first on all four National flights.
