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. 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