[2] His sons Reid and Jay Kempe competed together in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona in the Tornado class.
[3] His grandsons, Justin and Jonathan Kempe, live in Bermuda and own a yacht charter company.
Kempe studied engineering and fine arts at Mount Allison Academy in Canada, but spent a year in hospital for polio.
[1][5] They returned home to set up a craft shop, specializing in leather handbags for Cecile's.
[5] According to his family, his work appeared on "all major local trophies", as well as silver gifts, including items for visiting world leaders including the Queen, the Pope, President Nixon, British Prime Minister Edward Heath, and Haile Selassie, the Emperor of Ethiopia.