New Zealand 1948 – 2001 With more than 500,000 successful racing and cruising miles, Peter Blake was one of the world’s finest sailors. As the syndicate head for the victorious […]

New Zealand 1962 – Sir Russell Coutts is the second foreign skipper ever to win the America’s Cup. He sailed Team New Zealand’s BLACK MAGIC to an unprecedented 37- 1 […]

USA – Chandler Hovey was a competitor and Corinthian yachtsman in the truest sense. In 1930 and 1934, he financed, managed, and skippered the J-boat YANKEE. In the years that […]

USA – The perfect blend of genius and gentleman, Frank Murdoch brought cutting edge technology to the America’s Cup. His engineering experience and influence transformed T.O.M. Sopwith’s 1934 J-Class yacht […]

USA – General Charles Paine managed what has become known as “the first modern America’s Cup Defense Syndicate” in 1885 with the Edward Burgess designed yacht PURITAN. Paine was known […]