America's Cup Hall of Fame

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.^[1] 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 and Louis Vuitton 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.^[2] 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.^[3] In the following year, on September 18, eighteen "charter" inductees were honored at the Herreshoff Marine Museum. Since then, fifty-five 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[4] Chandler Hovey Frank J. Murdoch Gen. Charles J. Paine 1997 James L. 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[5] 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[6] Laurie Davidson Bruno Troublé 2008 John Biddle[7] 2009 John Longley AM[8] Thomas Ratsey

2010–present

2010^[9]

• Halsey C. Herreshoff
• Simon Daubney
• Warwick Fleury
• Murray Jones
• Dean Phipps
• Mike Drummond

2012^[10]

• Patrizio Bertelli
• Gerard B. Lambert, Sr.
• Jonathan Wright

2013^[10]

• Grant Simmer
• Noel Robins
• Lucy M. Jewett

See also

• America's Cup
• Louis Vuitton Cup

References

1. "Herreshoff Marine Museum website". Archived from the original on 29 December 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-16.
2. Victor Danilov. Hall of Fame Museums. A Reference Guide. Greenwood Press, 1997. Pages 134-135. Retrieved 2007-12-16.
3. America's Cup Hall of Fame webpage. Herreshoff Marine Museum website. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
4. "Barbara Lloyd. New York Times: A youthful hall of famer says he's just begun to sail. September 11, 1998.". The New York Times. September 11, 1996. Retrieved 2007-12-16.
5. "New York Social Diary: Rolex America's Cup Hall of Fame Party Pictures October 2003". Retrieved 2007-12-16.
6. "Sailing Scuttlebutt. 15th Annual America's Cup Hall of Fame. Press Release.". Retrieved 2007-12-16.
7. "Sailing Scuttlebutt. 16th Annual America's Cup Hall of Fame. Press Release.". Archived from the original on 11 October 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-27.
8. "Scuttlebutt News". Scuttlebutt Sailing Club. October 19, 2009. Archived from the original on 27 November 2010. Retrieved 2011-01-03.
9. The 17th America’s Cup Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony was held on September 18, 2010. "America's Cup Stars Shine at Hall of Fame Induction". September 21, 2010. America's Cup Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony webpage. Herreshoff Marine Museum / America's Cup Hall of Fame website. Retrieved 2011-01-03.
10. "America's Cup Hall of Fame: Inductees". Herreshoff Marine Museum. Retrieved 13 September 2013.

External links

• America's Cup Hall of Fame webpage. Herreshoff Marine Museum website.
• Visitor Information webpage. Herreshoff Marine Museum website.
• Herreshoff Marine Museum website