Graeme Hayward

Graeme Hayward (1929 to July 4, 2013) was a Canadian Fourteen Foot Dinghy Hall of Fame Inductee by the Canadian Dinghy Association at Royal Canadian Yacht Club Toronto 2011

• I-14 Team Race Champion (1x World and 6x Canadian)
• CDA and World Association President, CDA Champion
• America’s Cup Match Racing rules pioneer, International Umpire and Judge
• 39 year CYA committee(s) member and chair

Over a 31-year period, Graeme owned and campaigned six International Fourteens, winning the World Team Races in Bermuda in 1959, the CDA Championship in 1958 and the CDA Team Racing Championships on six different occasions. He helped build the clubhouse of the Itchenor Sailing Club and was Commodore of the Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club in Montreal. Graeme was elected life member at Itchenor Sailing Club, Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club and the Oxford-Cambridge Sailing Society. He was voted CYA Volunteer of the year in 1998.

As CDA president from 1966 to 1973, Graeme proposed and led the creation of the International Fourteen World Association. Graeme also served as CDA Measurer and Rules Committee Chairman for 25 years and helped author and update our constitution and class rules. As World President, he established formal trials for the single trapeze in North America and successfully lobbied the UK association to ensure its worldwide adoption in 1971. He was a leader of the Fourteen fleet in Montreal winning many important Canadian and US trophies including the Bongard, Buzzards Bay Bowl, DP Kirby Memorial and seven RstLYC I-14 class championships.

After Fourteens, Graeme helped introduce on-the-water umpiring to the match racing world. He was the rules advisor for the Canadian entries at the 1982 and 1986 America’s Cups and was part of the International Jury/Umpire teams in Fremantle, San Diego and Auckland. He was a member of the ISAF Working Party in Lymington that established the rules for umpiring and match racing (now Appendix C). He served as an International Umpire for 15 years, helped develop the Umpires’ call book and co-authored and administered the ISAF Umpires’ test. He has been an ISAF umpire and judge at 26 World Match Racing Conference events including various Louis Vuitton Cups, Nations Cups and Gold Cups. He has chaired or umpired at a further 27 match racing events including fourteen York Cups and the 2007 International C-Class Championships.

Graeme has also served as ISAF judge over a 30-year period at 34 world and 57 major championships ranging from the International Fourteen Worlds to the Canada’s Cup, Maxi World Cup, Whitbread, Australian America’s Cup Defender Trials, SORC, Miami OCR, and World Championships for the Farr 40, J24 and Laser classes. Back home, Graeme was a member and chairman of the CYA Appeals, Racing Rules and Umpires’ committees over a 39-year period. In recognition of his contributions, he was elected member emeritus of the Appeals committee in 2004 and named CYA Judge emeritus in 2011.