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Ed Baird said he was “colder than I’ve ever been in Florida” in winning the St. Moritz Match Race. (©Swedish Match Tour/Guido Cantini)
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Mark Mendelblatt tries to head up after a jibe to starboard but can’t prevent Ed Baird from rolling over to windward. (©Swedish Match Tour/Guido Cantini)
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Nationality American
Residence St. Petersburg, Florida
Date of Birth May 17, 1958
Ed placed 2nd on the final 2004-’05 World Match Racing Tour leaderboard with 41 points. He has four career victories on and is the only skipper to have placed in the Championship 8 each tour season.
WMRT.com Coverage
Catching Up with Ed Baird (May 2, 2005)
Baird Joins Team Alinghi (Nov. 30, 2004)
Baird Regains Tour Lead in Japan (Nov. 21, 2004)
Double No. 1 (Aug. 5, 2004)
Team Musto Wins Second Tour Event (July 31, 2004)
An Interview with Ed Baird (Tour Newsletter No. 7, April/May 2004)
Baird’s Resiliency and Luck Lead to Victory (April 25, 2004)
World Match Racing Tour Results
2006 - '07 — 8th Overall
2005 - '06 — 6th Overall
2004 -’05 — 2nd Overall
2003 -’04 — 7th Overall
2002 -’03 — 6th Overall
2001 -’02 — 5th Overall
2000 -’01 — 8th Overall
2000 — 8th Overall
2006-’07
3rd — Bermuda Gold Cup '07
(Crew:Rodney Ardern, Lorenzo Mazza, Piet Van Nieuwenhuyzen)
2nd — Allianz Cup '06
(Crew:Mike Drummond, Nils Frei, Piet Van Nieuwenhuyzen, Craig Satterthwaite)
2nd — St Moritz '06
(Crew: Mike Drummond, Nils Frei)
2005-’06
1st — St. Moritz Match Race ’05
(Crew: Mike Drummond, Nils Frei)
6= — Brazil Sailing Cup ’06
(Crew: Rodney Ardern, Nils Frei, Murray Jones, Piet Van Nieuwenhuyzen)
2004-’05
1st — Nippon Cup ’04
(Crew: Andy Horton, Piet Van Nieuwenhuyzen, Jon Ziskind)
1st — Portugal Match Cup ’04
(Crew: Andy Horton, Dean Phipps, Guy Salter, Jon Ziskind)
3rd — King Edward VII Gold Cup ’04
(Crew: Andy Horton, Piet van Nieuwenhuyzen, Jon Ziskind)
3rd — Match Race Germany ’05
(Crew: Nils Frei, Yann Gouinot, Piet Van Nieuwenhuyzen, Dean Phipps)
4th — ACI H1 Match Race Cup ’05
(Crew: Jordi Calafat, Lorenzo Mazza, Dean Phipps, Piet Van Nieuwenhuyzen)
5th — Swedish Match Cup ’05
(Crew: Nils Frei, Yann Gouinot, Piet Van Nieuwenhuyzen, Dean Phipps)
5th — Toscana Elba Cup ’05
(Crew: Nils Frei, Yann Gouinot, Piet Van Nieuwenhuyzen, Dean Phipps)
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 ’00
America’s Cup Affiliation
2007: Alinghi – Helmsman, America's Cup Winner
2000: Young America – Skipper, 7th, Louis Vuitton Cup 2000
1995: Team New Zealand – Coach, Won America’s Cup and Louis Vuitton Cup
Accomplishments
Rolex Yachtsman of the Year 1995
Three-time Match Racing World Champion (2000, ’03, ’04)
2nd – 2005 Match Racing World Championship
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
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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