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. [citeweb | url = http://www.herreshoff.org | title = America's Cup Hall of Fame website | accessdate = 2007-12-16] 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. [citeweb | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=VUO_J0YzpP0C&pg=PA135&lpg=PA135&dq=america's+cup+hall+of+fame&source=web&ots=NlaaaHitUb&sig=P4NqV7KyB6kt5S3oLQZgklC-F14#PPP1,M1 | title = Victor Danilov. "Hall of Fame Museums. A Reference Guide." Greenwood Press, 1997. Pages 134-135. | accessdate = 2007-12-16] 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, president of the Herreshoff Marine Museum and four-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, forty-nine inductees have joined the Hall of Fame.

List of Inductees

2008 Inductee [citeweb | url = http://forum.sailingscuttlebutt.com/cgi-bin/gforum.cgi?post=6298 | title = Sailing Scuttlebutt. 16th Annual America's Cup Hall of Fame. Press Release. | accessdate = 2008-08-27]

flagicon|USAJohn Biddle

2007 Inductees [citeweb | url = http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/news/07/0214/ | title = Sailing Scuttlebutt. 15th Annual America's Cup Hall of Fame. Press Release. | accessdate = 2007-12-16]

flagicon|NZLLaurie Davidson

flagicon|FRABruno Troublé

2006 Inductees

flagicon|AUSBen Lexcen

flagicon|USAStephen A. Van Dyck

2005 Inductees

flagicon|USAGeorge "Fritz" Jewett Jr.

flagicon|AUSAlan Payne

flagicon|USAJack Sutphen

2004 Inductees

flagicon|USAHenry Coleman Haff

flagicon|SCOWilliam Fife III

flagicon|NZLBrad Butterworth

flagicon|USAThomas A. Whidden

2003 Inductees [citeweb | url = http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/partypictures/2003/12.3.03/partypictures12.3.03.php | title = New York Social Diary: Rolex America's Cup Hall of Fame Party Pictures October 2003 | accessdate = 2007-12-16]

flagicon|USAGary Jobson

flagicon|AUSAlan Bond

2002 Inductees

flagicon|USAMalin Burnham

flagicon|NZLSir Michael Fay

flagicon|USAStanley Rosenfeld

2001 Inductees

flagicon|USAHarry "Buddy" Melges, Jr.

flagicon|USAHenry Sturgis Morgan

flagicon|ENGThomas Egerton, 2nd Earl of Wilton

2000 Inductees

flagicon|USAEdward I. du Moulin

flagicon|USAEdwin D. Morgan

flagicon|NZLTom Schnackenberg

1999 Inductees

flagicon|USACaptain Richard Brown

flagicon|AUSSir Frank Packer

flagicon|USAJames Buttersworth

1998 Inductees

flagicon|USAJ. Burr Bartram

flagicon|FRABaron Marcel Bich

flagicon|USAGeorge Steers

1997 Inductees

flagicon|ENGJames L. Ashbury

flagicon|USAWilliam F. Carstens

flagicon|ENGCharles E. Nicholson

1996 Inductees

flagicon|NZLSir Peter Blake

flagicon|ENGFrank J. Murdoch

flagicon|NZLRussell Coutts [citeweb | url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B03E4DD1E3BF932A2575AC0A960958260 | title = Barbara Lloyd. New York Times: A youthful hall of famer says he's just begun to sail. September 11, 1998. | accessdate = 2007-12-16]

flagicon|USAGen. Charles J. Paine

flagicon|USAChandler Hovey

1995 Inductees

flagicon|USAArthur Knapp, Jr.

flagicon|ENGT.O.M. Sopwith

flagicon|USAMorris Rosenfeld

flagicon|SCOGeorge L. Watson

flagicon|USAHenry Sears

1994 Inductees

flagicon|USAEdward Burgess

flagicon|USAC. Oliver Iselin

flagicon|USAW. Starling Burgess

flagicon|USAVictor A. Romagna

flagicon|AUSSir James Hardy

flagicon|USAJohn Cox Stevens

flagicon|USASherman Hoyt

1993 Inductees

flagicon|USACharles Francis Adams III

flagicon|USAWilliam I. Koch

flagicon|USACharlie Barr

flagicon|SCOSir Thomas J. Lipton

flagicon|USARobert N. Bavier, Jr.

flagicon|USAEmil "Bus" Mosbacher

flagicon|AUSJohn Bertrand

flagicon|USAGeorge L. Schuyler

flagicon|USADennis Conner

flagicon|USAOlin J. Stephens II

flagicon|USABriggs S. Cunningham

flagicon|USARoderick Stephens, Jr.

flagicon|USAWilliam P. Ficker

flagicon|USATed Turner

flagicon|USANathanael Herreshoff

flagicon|USAHarold S. Vanderbilt

flagicon|USATed Hood

flagicon|USAGertrude Vanderbilt

References

ee also

*America's Cup
*Louis Vuitton Cup

External links

* [http://www.herreshoff.org America's Cup Hall of Fame]