Id Crook Memorial Trophy Explained

Id Crook Memorial Trophy is the sailing trophy awarded at the Masters Snipe World Championships. The Id Crook Memorial Trophy is awarded to the winning skipper and crew. Canada donated it to the Snipe Class International Racing Association (SCIRA).^[1] It's named after Canadian Id Crook, SCIRA's commodore, in 2000.

The regatta venue must rotate among North America, Europe, South America and Japan. No races to be run in wind velocity exceeding 15 knots. Skipper must be at least 45 years of age in the year of the regatta. The combined age of the skipper and crew must be at least 80 years in the year of the regatta.

4 divisions of medals are presented for trophies for the top 3 places in the following divisions:

• Apprentice Master Division (45-54 years)
• Master Division (55-64 years)
• Grand Master Division (65-74 years)
• Master Legends Division (75 years old and onwards)

Overall Master World Champion will be top placing team.

The Master Legends Division was created in 2015

Winners

Year	Venue	Skipper & Crew	Country
1986	Atlanta Yacht Club	Ken Simons & Bill Simons
1987	Yacht Club Santo Amaro	Ivan Pimentel & Ricardo Lebreiro
1989	Oakville Harbour Yacht Club	Ivan Pimentel & Luis Pesnovich
1991	Real Club de Regatas de Santiago de la Ribera	Félix Gancedo & Carlos Llamas
1992	Clube Internacional da Marina de Vilamoura	Paulo da Silva Santos & Fernando Silva
1994	Kaiyo Yacht Harbor	Kazunori Shinka & Tetsuji Nakatani
1996	Vestfjorden Seilforening	Birger Jansen & Marianne Stigar
1998	Club Náutico Córdoba	Bibi Juetz & Felipe Vasconcellos
1999		Flemming Christiansen & Morten Ullmann
2002	St. Petersburg Yacht Club	Augie Diaz & John Kehoe
2004	Associazione Sportiva Nautica Sabazia	Augie Diaz & Lisa Griffith
2006	Royal Nassau Sailing Club	Augie Diaz & Pam Kelly
2008^	Società Triestina della Vela
2010	Iate Clube do Rio de Janeiro	Paulo da Silva Santos & Rodrigo Inacio
2012	Real Club de Regatas de Santiago de la Ribera	Augie Diaz & Justine O’Connor
2014	Fukuoka City Yacht Harbor	Takeyasu Sugiyama & Hirotaka Kaneda
2016	Royal Nassau Sailing Club
2018	Associação Naval de Lisboa (Vilamoura)	Damián Borrás & Jordi Triay
2020^^
2023		Damián Borrás & Sara Franceschi

^The 2008 championship could not be completed due to wind conditions and the inability to achieve 3 races, which is the minimum for a Championship.^[2]
^^The 2020 championship was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

External links

• Results

Notes and References

1. Web site: SCIRA Canada. Deed of gift. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20161221155027if_/https://snipe.org/images/stories/pdf/2015DOG/IdCrookWorldMastersChampionship_2016.pdf. December 21, 2016. Snipe. Snipe Class International Racing Association (SCIRA). Canada.
2. Web site: SCIRA. 2009. World Masters-Not enough races. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20161221160826if_/https://www.snipe.org/news/26-2009-news/85-world-masters-not-enough-races. December 21, 2016. Snipe. Snipe Class International Racing Association (SCIRA).