Induction Class: 1993

USA – Facing one of the strongest challenges ever, Bill Koch won over the best in the sailing world by combining teamwork, talent, technology and ability to form a winning […]

USA – Gertrude Vanderbilt was the first woman to race aboard an America’s Cup yacht during an actual defense. She took an active role in helping her husband, Harold S. […]

USA – While only a schoolboy when the first SHAMROCK came over to challenge in 1899, “Mike” Vanderbilt was destined to rebuff Sir Thomas Lipton’s fifth try for the Cup. […]

USA – Ted Turner is credited with drawing more attention to America’s Cup competition than any other person in the long history of the Cup. He had proved himself in […]

USA 1910 – 2013 Rod Stephens was known as the consummate seaman and racing sailor. His racing career started in 1931 when he and his brother Olin won the trans-Atlantic […]

USA 1908 – 2008 Olin J. Stephens shares the record with Nat Herreshoff of designing six America’s Cup defenders. Largely self-taught, he started his career by designing several successful daysailers, […]

– George L. Schuyler was a civil engineer with steam ferry and railroad interests. He was a Colonel in the Civil War and a descendent of General Schuyler of Revolutionary […]

USA – Bus Mosbacher started sailing at the age of five and by the time he was nine, had his own boat, a Star-Class sloop. In 1935 and 1936, he […]

Scotland – Sir Thomas J. Lipton’s interest in sailing began at the age of fourteen when he talked his parents into letting him sail from his native Scotland to New […]

USA – Charles Francis Adams was the first amateur skipper of an America’s Cup defender. He was a Boston financer and philanthropist who became Mayor of Quincy, Massachusetts and later […]