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John and Barbara Koenig John and Barbara Koenig have been sailing for nearly 20 years and have owned three small sailboats.  But all of their experience to date has been as coastal cruisers.  They are looking forward to their first "blue water" experience, joining the Sea Gem on the leg from Fiji to Vanuatu. John is a veteran journalist, having held reporting and editing posts with magazines and newspapers in Florida, the Midwest and Northeast.  He is currently a business columnist at The Orlando Sentinel. Barbara is president of Hallmark Tassone in Orlando, an advertising agency that also has offices in Tampa and Pittsburgh.  She is active in several civic and charitable organizations, serving as regional chairman of Leadership Florida and on the board Prevent Blindness Florida. Married 21 years, they have a daughter, Brett, who graduates from Winter Park High School in spring 1999 and plans to attend the University of Virginia, where she will study architecture.