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Originally Posted by nightfighter
Wow, old thread, old names, old boats. I raced against a number of Bevin Koepel's Congeres. Just another old BN remembering the glory days.....
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Yeah, the original post was from 17 years ago. I was Googling 'Congere' and I came upon this forum and post. As you know, after 1972 Koeppel owned a series of increasingly bigger boats up to maxi size. That delivery was my first time on the boat and was told up front this was my 'try out' for the 1972 tran-Atlantic race to Bayonna, Spain. I did that race and Block island race , then Marblehead-Halifax in 1973 on the boat. Koeppel invited me to do the Rio race the next year but I declined. Sven Joffs retired soon after that to Menemsha, Martha's Vineyard where he spent his last years racing radio controlled model sailboats! He died in the mid-1980's. He was apparently quite good with the model boats as I once saw some results on the web. Stories of his days on 'Ondine' are what made him the legend he was during that era. It was a true priviledge to have sailed several thousand miles with that man when I crewed on 'Congere'. I was age 22 at the time. BTW, on that delivery the seas were not 65'! Big but not nearly that big. P.S. Probably few would know what a 'BN' is... I do, I was!