Cape Horn Hall of Fame, Class of 2025

The International Association of Cape Horners (IACH) Cape Horn Hall of Fame have named six people for the Class of 2025 inductees.

Five-time circumnavigator Paul Standbridge, photographer Rick Tomlinson, and solo offshore racer Samantha Davies represented the UK while France had Vendée Globe Race winner Charlie Dalin, Catherine Chabaud, the first women to complete a Vendée Globe solo circumnavigation, and fellow sailing heroine Isabelle Autissier.

The International Association of Cape Horners (IACH) received 31 nominations from the public for this year’s Hall of Fame. The list was verified by an independent selection committee chaired by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the first person to sail solo non-stop around the world, and 15 names went forward to a vote by all members of of IACH.

This is the 4th year of the Cape Horn Hall of Fame awards and the names of 46 of the most famous round the world sailors now adorn the Cape Horn honours board housed in a club house in the French port of Les Sables d’Olonne, the home of solo sailing, and host port for the Vendée Globe and Golden Globe Race events.

• Inductee profiles: https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Cape-Horn-Hall-of-Fame.pdf
• Details: https://capehorners.org/hall-of-fame/

Names honored in the IACH Cape Horn Hall of Fame:
• Willem Schouten (1567-1625), Netherlands
• Jacob Le Maire (1585-1616), Belgium
• Vice Admiral Robert Fitzroy (1805-1865), England
• Capt. Vern Verner Björkfelt (1900-1982), Finland
• Capt. Thomas Carter (T.C) Fearon (1813 – 1869), USA
• Capt. Adolph Hauth, Germany
• Capt. Louis Allaire (1880-1949), France
• Alan Villiers (1903-1982), Australia
• Vito Dumas (1900-1965), Argentina
• Marcel Bardiaux (1910-1958), France
• Sir Francis Chichester (1901-1972), England
• Sir Alec Rose (1908-1991), England
• Sir Robin Knox-Johnston (1939-), England
• Bernard Moitessier (1925-1994), France
• Sir Chay Blyth (1940-), Scotland
• Ramon Carlin (1923-2016), Mexico
• Éric Tabarly (1931-1998), France
• Cornelis van Rietschoten (1926-2013), Netherlands
• Dame Naomi James (1949-), New Zealand
• Kay Cottee (1954-), Australia
• Jon Sanders (1939-), Australia
• Philippe Jeantot (1952-), France
• Titouan Lamazou (1955-), France
• Sir Peter Blake (1948-2001), New Zealand
• Dilip Donde (1967-), India
• Stan Honey (1955-), America
• Dee Caffari (1973-), England
• Jean-Luc Van Den Heede (1945-), France
• Dame Ellen MacArthur (1976 -), UK
• Grant Dalton (1957 – ), New Zealand
• Skip Novak (1952 – ), USA
• Jeanne Socrates (1942 – ), UK
• Franck Cammas (1972 – ), France
• Michel Desjoyeaux ( 1965 – ), France
• Loïck Peyron (1959-), France
• Jean Le Cam (1959-), France
• Francis Joyon (1956-), France
• Andrew Cape (1962-), Australia
• Dr. Roger Nilson (1949-), Sweden
• Mike Golding (1960-), Great Britain
• Paul Standbridge (1958-), Great Britain
• Rick Tomlinson (1958-), Great Britain
• Charlie Dalin (1984-), France
• Samantha Davies (1974-), Great Britain
• Catherine Chabaud (1962-), France
• Isabelle Autissier (1956-), France