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| SKIPPER:ED
BAIRD |
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NATIONALITY: American
RESIDENCE: St.Petersburg, Florida
DATE OF BIRTH(YEAR):
TEAM: Team Musto
CREW LIST: Pieter van Nieuwenhuysen , Jonathan
Ziskind , Andrew Horton |
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| Ed placed 7th on the final 2003-'04 Swedish Match
Tour leaderboard with 41 points. He's one of two
skippers who have placed in the top eight on the
final leaderboard in each Tour season. |
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| Swedish Match Tour
Results: |
| 2003-'04 |
- 7th Overall |
| 2002-'03 |
- 6th Overall |
| 2001-'02 |
- 5th Overall |
| 2000-'01 |
- 8th Overall |
| 2000 |
- 8th Overall |
| 2004-'05 |
1st - Portugal
Match Cup '04
(Crew: Andy Horton, Dean Phipps, Guy Salter, Jon Ziskind) |
| 2003-'04 |
1st - Congressional
Cup '04
5th - Swedish Match Cup '04
7th - Toscana Elba Cup - Trofeo Locman '04 |
| 2002-'03 |
2nd - UBS
Challenge '02
3rd - Match Race Germany '03
4th - Toscana Elba Cup - Trofeo Locman '03
5th - Trofeo Challenge Roberto Trombini '02 |
| 2001-'02 |
2nd - Match
Race Germany '02
3rd - Bermuda Gold Cup '01
3rd - Swedish Match Cup '02
9th - Congressional Cup '02
10th - Steinlager Line 7 Cup '02 |
| 2000-'01 |
3rd - Danish
Open '00
3rd - King Edward VII Gold Cup '00
7th - Trofeo Challenge Roberto Trombini '00 |
| 2000 |
3rd - Danish
Open '00
3rd - King Edward VII Gold Cup '00
7th - Trofeo Challenge Roberto Trombini '00Core |
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| Core Crewmembers: |
Andy Horton (USA)
Jon Ziskind (USA) |
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| America's Cup Affiliation: |
Young America 2000 - Skipper, 7th, Louis Vuitton
Cup 2000
Team New Zealand 1995 - Coach, Won America's Cup
and Louis Vuitton Cup |
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| Additional Accomplishments: |
Rolex Yachtsman of the Year 1995
Three-time Match Racing World Champion (2000, '03,
'04)
1st - New York Yacht Club Maxi Boat Championship
'97
1st - Rolex Sydney-Hobart Race 2000
2nd - Cowes Week '99, Maxi Class
4th - 1997-'98 Whitbread Round the World Race,
Innovation Kvaerner
Past winner of Knickerbocker Cup
Past U.S. Soling Champion |
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| Additional Information: |
When it comes to match-racing in the U.S., Ed
Baird is the undisputed king of the hill. He's
the only American that practices the discipline
on a regular basis. Other American skippers may
have represented the U.S. in the match-racing discipline
at the Olympics, but Baird campaigns actively on
the international circuit, and has enjoyed great
success.
Baird is the only American winner of the World
Championship of Match Race Sailing, winning the
title at the 1995 Steinlager Line 7 Cup in New
Zealand. He repeated the feat at Lake Garda, Italy,
in 2003.
On the World Match Racing Circuit, Baird has won
10 major international events and is the only American
ever ranked no.1 on the ISAF World Match Race Rankings
list. Baird is one of only two skippers to place
in the top eight each of the first four years of
the Swedish Match Tour.
Baird is a past recipient of the Rolex Yachtsman
of the Year award. He won in '95 after his first
Match Racing Worlds triumph and also for being
part of the America's Cup winning Team New Zealand.
Baird was a coach on the team that took the Cup
to New Zealand.
Baird's run for America's Cup 2000 was less auspicious
than his debut with Team New Zealand five years
earlier. Baird skippered the New York Yacht Club's
Young America syndicate, but the team's legacy
on the event was its near sinking during a Louis
Vuitton Cup second round race.
Sailing in 18- to 20-knot winds near the northeast
corner of New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf, Baird's Young
America, USA-53, reared up in a set of waves during
a tack. The side decks near the jib tracks cracked,
and the hull became compromised. The crew abandoned
ship when they thought it was about to sink. Only
slick seamanship and quick action saved the sloop
from the depths of the gulf.
Baird tried his hand at distance sailing in 1998,
joining the Norwegian Whitbread Round the World
Race entry Innovation Kvaerner. Three years later
he rejoined skipper Knut Frostad, this time aboard
Djuice Dragons in the 2001-'02 Volvo Ocean Race,
providing strategic and tactical support for the
final four legs of the grueling race.
Baird formed an Olympic campaign for Sydney 2000
in the Soling class, which was the match-racing
discipline. He won the U.S. Match Racing Championship
and led the U.S. Olympic trials after the fleet
racing portion. But he lost the bid in the match-racing
final.
Baird has been lauded for his expert analysis of
America's Cup and Louis Vuitton Cup racing on Television
New Zealand's One Sport program. Baird is also
a successful instructional author, coach and trainer. |
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