Induction Class: 1994

Australia – “Gentleman Jim”, they call him that is, until they race against him. A fierce competitor, mild mannered Jim Hardy is a life long sailor and one of Australia’s […]

USA – “In the third race of the 1934 challenge RAINBOW was down by two races and behind in the third when C. Sherman Hoyt took the helm. This was […]

USA – C. Oliver Iselin’s sailing career began with small, over rigged boats known as sandbaggers. These were wide, shoal boats on which capsize was always imminent. He raced catboats […]

USA – Victor Romagna had been closely involved with 12-meter yachts since these boats revived America’s Cup competition in 1958. Having come over from VIM, he took position on the […]

USA – On July 30, 1844 aboard the yacht GIMCRACK in New York Harbor, John Cox Stevens was named Commodore of the new yacht club that had been formed moments […]

USA – A reversal of the Burgess family fortune became good fortune for the sailing world. It turned this Harvard professor of entomology into the yacht designing genius of the […]

USA – At age twelve when his father, Edward Burgess fell to typhoid fever, there was little doubt that W. Starling Burgess would one day rival his father’s genius. He […]