The America's Cup Hall of Fame, located at the

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, USA, honors individuals for outstanding achievement in the

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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.

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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

winner, founded the

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in 1992. 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 Charles Francis Adams III (August 2, 1866 – June 10, 1954) was an American lawyer and politician, who served as the 44th United States Secretary of the Navy under President Herbert Hoover from 1929 to 1933. He was skipper of the Resolute which ...

Charlie Barr Charles Barr (11 July 1864 – 24 January 1911), was an accomplished sailing skipper who three times captained winning America's Cup yachts. Early life Charlie Barr was born in Gourock, Scotland in 1864 and first apprenticed as a grocer before w ...

*Robert N. Bavier, Jr. * John Bertrand *

Dennis Conner Dennis Walter Conner (born September 16, 1942) is an American yachtsman. He is noted for winning a bronze medal at the 1976 Olympics, two Star World Championships, and three wins in the America's Cup. Sailing career Conner was born September ...

* Briggs S. Cunningham * William P. Ficker *

Nathanael Herreshoff Nathanael Greene Herreshoff (March 18, 1848 – June 2, 1938) was an American naval architect, mechanical engineer, and yacht design innovator. He produced a succession of undefeated America's Cup defenders between 1893 and 1920. Biography Herr ...

Ted Hood Frederick Emmart Hood (May 5, 1927 — June 28, 2013) was an American yachtsman and naval architect. He founded the sailmaker Hood Sails in Marblehead, Massachusetts in 1952. Hood Sails operated until purchased by Quantum Sails in 2017. Hood fo ...

* William I. Koch * Sir Thomas J. Lipton * Emil "Bus" Mosbacher *George L. Schuyler * Olin J. Stephens II * Roderick Stephens, Jr. *

Ted Turner Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American entrepreneur, television producer, media proprietor, and philanthropist. He founded the Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour United States cable news, cable news ch ...

*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 John Cox Stevens (September 24, 1785 – June 13, 1857) is best known for founding and serving as the first Commodore of the New York Yacht Club as well as being a member of the ''America'' syndicate which, in 1851, won the trophy that would beco ...

;1995 *Arthur Knapp, Jr. *Morris Rosenfeld *

Henry Sears Henry Sears (1913 – March 1982) was an American commander and a commodore of the New York Yacht Club who competed in the America's Cup and discovered multiple species of marine fish. Early life Sears began sailing at the age of eight. As a ...

* T.O.M. Sopwith *

George Lennox Watson George Lennox Watson (30 October 1851 – 12 November 1904) was a Scottish naval architect. Born in Glasgow, son of Thomas Lennox Watson, a doctor at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and grandson of Sir Timothy Burstall, engineer and entrant at the ...

;1996 * Sir Peter Blake *

Russell Coutts Sir Russell Coutts (born 1 March 1962) is a world champion New Zealand yachtsman. Early and personal life Coutts was educated at Otago Boys' High School (1975–1979) and is a Life Member of Paremata Boating Club, where he learnt to sail in ...

*Chandler Hovey *Frank J. Murdoch *Gen. Charles J. Paine ;1997 *

James Lloyd Ashbury James Lloyd Ashbury (1834 – 3 September 1895) was a British yachtsman and Conservative Party politician. Early life The son of John Ashbury, founder of the Ashbury Railway Carriage and Iron Company Ltd of Manchester, James trained as an engine ...

*William F. Carstens * Charles E. Nicholson ;1998 *J. Burr Bartram * Baron Marcel Bich *

George Steers George Steers (August 15, 1819 – September 25, 1856) was a designer of yachts best known for the famous racing yacht ''America''. He founded a shipyard with his brother, George Steers and Co, and died in an accident just as he was landing a ma ...

;1999 * Captain Richard Brown *

James Buttersworth James Edward Buttersworth (1817–1894) was an English painter who specialized in maritime art and is considered among the foremost ship portraitists in the United States of the nineteenth century. His paintings are particularly known for the ...

Sir Frank Packer Sir Douglas Frank Hewson Packer (3 December 19061 May 1974), was an Australian media proprietor who controlled Australian Consolidated Press and the Nine Network. He was a patriarch of the Packer family. Early life Frank Packer was born in K ...

2000–2009

;2000 *Edward I. du Moulin *Edwin D. Morgan *

Tom Schnackenberg Thomas William Schnackenberg (born 11 May 1945) is a New Zealand sailor and yacht designer best known for his involvement with the America's Cup. He was inducted into the America's Cup Hall of Fame in 2000. Schnackenberg attended Auckland Gram ...

;2001 *

Thomas Egerton, 2nd Earl of Wilton Thomas Egerton, 2nd Earl of Wilton, GCH, PC (30 December 1799 – 7 March 1882), known as Thomas Grosvenor until 1814, was a British nobleman and Tory politician. He served as Lord Steward of the Household in 1835 in Sir Robert Peel's f ...

* Harry "Buddy" Melges, Jr. *

Henry Sturgis Morgan Henry Sturgis Morgan Sr. (October 24, 1900 – February 8, 1982) was an American banker, known for being the co-founder of Morgan Stanley and the president and chairman of the Morgan Library & Museum. Early life and education Morgan was b ...

;2002 * Malin Burnham * Sir Michael Fay *Stanley Rosenfeld ;2003 *

Alan Bond Alan Bond (22 April 1938 – 5 June 2015) was an English-born Australian businessman noted for his high-profile and often corrupt business dealings. These included his central role in the WA Inc scandals of the 1980s, and what was at the time ...

Gary Jobson Gary Jobson is a sailor, television commentator and author based in Annapolis, Maryland. He is a Vice President of the International Sailing Federation. Gary has authored 19 sailing books and is Editor at Large of ''Sailing World'' and ''Cruising ...

;2004 *

Brad Butterworth Bradley William Butterworth (born 1959) is a New Zealand yachtsman known for the role he played as tactician and skipper in the America's Cup for Team New Zealand and the Alinghi team of Switzerland. Butterworth was born in Te Awamutu, New Zeal ...

William Fife III William Fife Jr. (15 June 1857 – 11 August 1944), also known as William Fife III, was the third generation of a family of Scottish yacht designers and builders. In his time, William Fife designed around 600 yachts, including two contend ...

*Henry Coleman Haff * Thomas A. Whidden ;2005 *George "Fritz" Jewett Jr. * Alan Payne *Jack Sutphen ;2006 *

Ben Lexcen Benjamin Lexcen AM (born Robert Clyde Miller, 19 March 1936 – 1 May 1988) was an Australian yachtsman and marine architect. He is famous for the winged keel design applied to ''Australia II'' which, in 1983, became the first non-American ya ...

*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 Simon Leslie Daubney (born 17 July 1959) is a New Zealand sailor (sport), sailor who has sailed in the Olympics and is a member of the America's Cup Hall of Fame. Early life Daubney was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1959. Olympic career ...

Warwick Fleury Warwick David Fleury is a New Zealand sailor who has competed in eight America's Cups. He competed with New Zealand Challenge in the 1987, 1988 and 1992 America's Cup campaigns. Fleury was a trimmer with Team New Zealand during their successfu ...

* Murray Jones *

Dean Phipps Dean Phipps is a New Zealand sailor who has competed in eight America's Cups. Phipps was a part of the Victory ’83 challenge for the 1983 Louis Vuitton Cup and sailed on '' Australia IV'' during the 1987 Defender Selection Series. He was the ...

Mike Drummond Mike Drummond is a New Zealand sailor and yacht designer who is a member of the America's Cup Hall of Fame. Drummond was born in Christchurch and joined New Zealand Challenge before the 1987 America's Cup and he then helped to design, and sail ...

;2012 *

Patrizio Bertelli Patrizio Bertelli (born 6 April 1946), is an Italian billionaire businessman, and the former co-chief executive officer (CEO), with his wife Miuccia Prada, of Prada Group. As of March 2022, his net worth was estimated at US$4.5 billion. Life an ...

*Gerard B. Lambert, Sr. *Jonathan Wright ;2013 *

Grant Simmer Grant Simmer (born 1957) is an Australian sailor and yacht designer who has competed in multiple America's Cups. He sailed as navigator on ''Australia II'' when it won the 1983 America's Cup. He stayed with Alan Bond's syndicate and was navig ...

Noel Robins David Noel Robins, OAM (3 September 1935 – 22 May 2003) was an Australian sailor. He began sailing as a child, and became partially quadriplegic after receiving a spinal fracture from a car crash at the age of 21. He was the sk ...

*Lucy M. Jewett ;2016 * Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl *

Ernesto Bertarelli Ernesto Silvio Maurizio Bertarelli (born 22 September 1965) is an Italian-born Swiss billionaire businessman and philanthropist. The 2017 edition of the Sunday Times Rich List estimated the family's wealth at £11.5 billion, an increase of £1 ...

;2017 *

John Marshall John Marshall (September 24, 1755July 6, 1835) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the fourth Chief Justice of the United States from 1801 until his death in 1835. He remains the longest-serving chief justice and fourth-longes ...

* Doug Peterson *

Syd Fischer Syd Fischer, (born 4 March 1927 in Sydney) is an Australian businessman and property developer and sailor. Most noted for his sailing, Fischer is described as Australia's most successful offshore sailor. He has skippered numerous yachts, notab ...

;2018 *Ken McAlpine ;2019 *

Henry Racamier Henri Serge Racamier (January 25, 1912 - March 29, 2003) was a French industrialist and businessman. He was primarily known for co-founding the luxury conglomerate LVMH and turning Louis Vuitton into an internationally recognized brand with billi ...

*William H. Dyer Jones *William T. Trenkle

2020–present

;2020 *

Franklin Osgood Franklin Osgood (December 24, 1828January 13, 1888) was a 19th-century businessman and yachtsman. He was one of the most experienced yachtsman having sailed for more than 23 years. He was owner and manager of the racing yachts Widgeon (pilot boa ...

*Bryan Wills *Rolf Vrolijk ;2021 *

Ed Baird Phillip Edward "Ed" Baird (born May 17, 1958) is an American sailor. He was a coach of the 1995 America's Cup-winning Team New Zealand and a helmsman for the 2007 America's Cup-winning Alinghi syndicate. Growing up in Florida, Baird raced in ...

* Peter Montgomery (broadcaster)

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 {{America'sCup Awards established in 1992 Halls of fame in Rhode Island