The America's Cup Hall of Fame, located at the Herreshoff Marine Museum of Bristol, Rhode Island, USA, honors individuals for outstanding achievement in the America's Cup sailing competition. Candidates eligible for consideration include skippers, afterguard, crew, designers, builders, organizers, syndicate managers, supporters, chroniclers, race managers, and other individuals of merit. A selection committee of twenty-two members consisting of former America's Cup participants, yachting historians, and yachting journalists annually selects a class of one to four inductees. Rolex, Louis Vuitton, and Prada have been sponsors of the Hall of Fame's induction ceremonies.
The Hall of Fame's museum, a division of the Herreshoff Marine Museum, features plaques of the inductees and permanent and temporary exhibitions of artifacts related to the America's Cup. The museum's library contains one of the largest collections of manuscripts and books related to the America's Cup and yachting history.
History Halsey C. Herreshoff, former president of the Herreshoff Marine Museum and three-time America's Cup winner, founded the Hall of Fame in 1992.America's Cup Hall of Fame webpage. Herreshoff Marine Museum website. Retrieved 2010-08-09. In the following year, on September 18, eighteen "charter" inductees were honored at the Herreshoff Marine Museum. Since then, over ninety inductees have joined the Hall of Fame.
List of Inductees
1993–1999
1993 Charles Francis Adams III Charlie Barr Robert N. Bavier, Jr. John Bertrand Dennis Conner Briggs S. Cunningham William P. Ficker Nathanael Herreshoff Ted Hood William I. Koch Sir Thomas J. Lipton Emil "Bus" Mosbacher George L. Schuyler Olin J. Stephens II Roderick Stephens, Jr. Ted Turner Gertrude Vanderbilt Harold S. Vanderbilt
1994 Edward Burgess W. Starling Burgess Sir James Hardy Sherman Hoyt C. Oliver Iselin Victor A. Romagna John Cox Stevens
1995 Arthur Knapp, Jr. Morris Rosenfeld Henry Sears T.O.M. Sopwith George Lennox Watson
1996 Sir Peter Blake Russell Coutts Chandler Hovey Frank J. Murdoch Gen. Charles J. Paine
1997 James Lloyd Ashbury William F. Carstens Charles E. Nicholson
1998 J. Burr Bartram Baron Marcel Bich George Steers
1999 Captain Richard Brown James Buttersworth Sir Frank Packer
2000–2009
2000 Edward I. du Moulin Edwin D. Morgan Tom Schnackenberg
2001 Thomas Egerton, 2nd Earl of Wilton Harry "Buddy" Melges, Jr. Henry Sturgis Morgan
2002 Malin Burnham Sir Michael Fay Stanley Rosenfeld
2003 Alan Bond Gary Jobson
2004 Brad Butterworth William Fife III Henry Coleman Haff Thomas A. Whidden
2005 George "Fritz" Jewett Jr. Alan Payne Jack Sutphen
2006 Ben Lexcen Stephen A. Van Dyck
2007 Laurie Davidson Bruno Troublé
2008 John Biddle
2009 John Longley AM Thomas Ratsey
2010–2019 2010 Halsey C. Herreshoff Simon Daubney Warwick Fleury Murray Jones Dean Phipps Mike Drummond 2012 Patrizio Bertelli Gerard B. Lambert, Sr. Jonathan Wright 2013 Grant Simmer Noel Robins Lucy M. Jewett 2016 Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl Ernesto Bertarelli 2017 John Marshall Doug Peterson Syd Fischer 2018 Ken McAlpine 2019 Henry Racamier William H. Dyer Jones William T. Trenkle
2020–present 2020 Franklin Osgood Bryan Wills Rolf Vrolijk
2021 Ed Baird Peter Montgomery (broadcaster)
See also America's Cup Louis Vuitton Cup
References
External links America's Cup Hall of Fame webpage. Herreshoff Marine Museum website. Visitor Information webpage. Herreshoff Marine Museum website. Herreshoff Marine Museum website