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GONCA, THE MYSTERIOUS

n June the yacht (pronounced ‘Gonja’) returned to what had been her home for over 20 years: the Rahmi M Koç Museum, founded in 1994 and named after its founder, common practice in Turkey. Koç, born in Ankara in 1930, is such an avid collector of objects related to the history of industry and navigation that he had to establish museums to gather them and make them available to all. CB readers may be familiar with a number of his other vessels: , , , , and – to name a few – are all unique pieces. Out of practicality someone has rounded the Koç collection up to 50, but they almost certainly outnumber that. is one

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