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 the captain of the '' Resolut ...

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

*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 Sir Russell Coutts (born 1 March 1962) is a world champion New Zealand yachtsman. He won an Olympic gold medal and skippered three Americas Cup victories in 1995, 2000, and 2003. Early life Coutts was educated at Otago Boys' High School ...

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

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

*William F. Carstens * Charles E. Nicholson ;1998 *J. Burr Bartram * Baron Marcel Bich * George Steers ;1999 * Captain Richard Brown * James Buttersworth *

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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 Sir Humphrey Michael Gerard Fay (born 10 April 1949) is a New Zealand merchant banker and partner in the merchant bank Fay Richwhite. He is one of the ten richest men in New Zealand. His personal wealth was largely acquired during the late 1980s ...

*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 Benjamin Lexcen Order of Australia, 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 fir ...

*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 *

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*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 *

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* Doug Peterson * Syd Fischer ;2018 *Ken McAlpine ;2019 *

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*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 an experienced yachtsman having sailed for more than 23 years. He was owner and manager of the racing yachts Widgeon (pilot boat), ''Widgeon ...

*Bryan Wills *Rolf Vrolijk ;2021 * Ed Baird * 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