Serial yacht owner, previous Formula One team owner Eddie Jordan has died at the age of 76, in Cape Town South Africa, on Thursday twentieth March at his home in Cape Town. Eddie Jordan was born on thirtieth March 1948 in Dublin, Ireland. The past December 2024, Eddie Jordan announced that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate and bladder cancer earlier in the year. Before starting his motorsports career at the age of 22, Eddie worked at the Bank of Ireland. At the age of 23 Eddie won the Irish Kart Championship in 1971. Three years later, he would move to Formula Ford to make his mark, winning the Irish Formula Atlantic Championship in 1978, racing in the British Formula Three and Formula Two and even doing a small amount of testing for McLaren. Jordan founded his first team, Eddie Jordan Racing, in 1979, competing in the British Formula Three, and Formula 3000 winning the former championship in 1987 with Johnny Herbert. In 1991 Eddie entered Formula One with Jordan Grand Prix, the team which debuted Michael Schumacher into Formula One in what was the team's debut season in that year. Jordan Grand Prix lasted till January 2005 having its best race result in 1998 when drivers Damon Hill and Ralf Schumacher finished first and second at the Belgian Grand Prix, and in 1999 when Heinz-Harald Frentzen secured two wins for the team throughout the season, eventually finishing third overall in the drivers' championship. Jordan Grand Prix was sold in early 2005 bought by the Midland Group, financed by Canadian businessman Alex Shnaider. Jordan's wealth of experience and keen racing acumen resulted in a stint as chief analyst for Formula One coverage on the BBC, and later Channel Four from 2009 up till his death in 2025. Jordan passion for sports would continue far beyond his motor racing days, with Jordan becoming a shareholder in the Celtic Football Club and the co-owner of the historic London Irish Rugby Club, the later owned today by his son Kyle. Eddie Jordan was a boating lover, born by the sea on the east coast of Ireland not far from Dublin, boats have always been in his blood, spending the early part of his formative teenage years competing on board the International 420 Class Dinghy. Following his entry into motor racing, yachting will be side lined, only for him to return as a multiple boat and yacht owner over the years. He started as a repeat Sunseeker owner, having owned ten builds from the boat builder of Poole and often ordering the biggest yacht from 1986 to 2017. He was eventually given the title as Sunseeker ambassador, and from 2018 to 2021 also served on Oyster yachts board of directors and again as brand ambassador. Some of Eddie Jordan boats and yachts over the years include the following; Sunseeker Portofino 21 XPS 1986, Sunseeker 121 Yacht 2007 to 2012, Elan 450 2008 to 2010, Oyster 655 2011 to 2012, Oyster 885GT from 2012 to 2014, Sunseeker 155 Yacht 2014 to 2017, Oyster 495 2022 to 2023. Eddie Jordan's latest yacht from 2018 up till the past December 2024 was a 2007 hull two of four of the Perini Navi 45M semi-custom build to order series. Eddie Jordan is survived by his wife Marie McCarthy, and his four children; Zoe, Miki, Zak and Kyle.
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