At press-time. These are the skippers that are planning to attend the 2010 Pro Am Regatta. Please understand that plans sometimes change, and that skippers of equal or higher stature may be substituted.
One mystery skipper is yet to be named too! Stay tuned!
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 We always like to have a first time skipper, a Pro Am “Newbie” if you will, and this year, Dean carries the torch. Success came early for Dean, as he won the World Youth Champs in 1990, rose to #4 in the World Match Cup rankings, and was later brought aboard Team New Zealand’s winning America’s Cup campaign in 2000. He helmed the unsuccessful 2003 defense, but went on to be a popular and top flight skipper on the match race, Farr 40, RC 44, and TP 52 circuits.
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 Also a three time Pro Am winner, Peter Holmberg has competed at the highest level in everything from Finns (Olympic Silver Medalist) to Maxi Yachts (Maxi World Champion Skipper). He achieved a #1 Ranking on the World Match Race Circuit, created a Virgin Islands America’s Cup Team, and went on to join Alinghi’s successful 2007 America’s Cup defense. He calls the USVI home, and is considered the best sailor to ever come out of the Caribbean.
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 Russell Coutts has won the America's Cup four times, most recently in 2010. His sailing record includes winning a Gold Medal in the 1984 Olympics, three World Match Racing Championships, numerous international match race wins and IOR, IMS and One Design World Championship victories. He has been named a Commander of the British Empire and has twice been the ISAF World Sailor of the Year. More importantly, he has won the Pro Am three previous times.
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 Paul Cayard was the first American skipper to win the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1998 on EF Language. In 2005-06, Paul skippered the Disney entry, Pirates of the Caribbean, in the Volvo Ocean Race, winning the final leg into Gothenburg (Sweden) and placing a commanding second overall.
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 One hardly needs to
introduce Ken Read to guests of Bitter End Yacht Club. He has
participated in no fewer than 10 Pro Ams, winning two along the way.
Most recently, he won the Junior Division at the Pro Am in 2007.
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 Born in St. Petersburg, Florida, Zach has always been involved in activities that were associated with the water. When he was eight years old he enrolled in a summer sailing program at Clearwater Yacht Club. He is considered by many to be the most decorated youth sailor the United States has ever produced. He first represented the US in a World Championship at the age of 11.
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 2010 will mark Anna’s second visit to the Pro Am Regatta. Hot on the heels of being a finalist (and a crowd favorite) at last year’s Pro Am, Anna jetted off to Korea to pick up the ISAF Female Sailor of the Year award. And the 2010 season so far has been equally illustrious. She announced that she would change disciplines and focus on the match race event at the next Olympic Games. And already she is being considered a front runner for the Gold. After taking the Silver Medal at the 42nd annual Semaine Olympique Francaise in Hyeres France (a World Cup Match race event), she won the XII International Women’s Match Race Criterium in Calpe, Spain, beating the world’s top ranked match-racer along the way. To refresh your memories, in 2008, representing the USA, she was the Olympic Gold Medalist and Number One-Ranked Woman Laser Radial Sailor.
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