List of TAFF Winners

TAFF is the Transatlantic Fan Fund

Year Direction and Winner Other Candidates Notes Report
1952 « Walt Willis (none) Not an official TAFF race, since TAFF didn't exist yet. The Walt with the Crew in '52 fund started it all off.
1954 « Vince Clarke Peter Campbell, Walter Gillings, Derek Pickles, Mike Rosenblum, Tony Thorne, James White Vince Clarke was unable to make the trip.
1955 « Ken Bulmer Eric Bentcliffe, Terry Jeeves
1956 » Lee Hoffman Forrest J. Ackerman, Gertrude M. Carr, Keny Corey, Dave Kyle, Hal Shapiro, Lou Tabakow Lee Hoffman declined the use of TAFF funds and Ackerman, the second place finisher was unable to go.
1957 » Bob Madle Forrest J. Ackerman, Richard Ellington, Dick Eney, Stuart Hoffman, Ed McNulty, Boyd Raeburn, George N. Raybin A Fake Fan in London
1958 « Ron Bennett John Berry, Dave Newman
1959 » Don Ford Terry Carr, Bjo Wells
1960 « Eric Bentcliffe Mal Ashworth, H. P. Sanderson
1961 » Ron Ellik Dick Eney Ella Parker attended the 1961 Worldcon paid for by the one-off Parker Pond Fund and has been mistakenly called the 1961 TAFF winner.
1962 « Ethel Lindsay Eddie Jones
1963 » Wally Weber Marion Zimmer Bradley, Bruce Pelz
1964 « Arthur Thomson Phil Rogers ATom Abroad
1965 » Terry Carr Bill Donaho, Jock Root
1966 « Thomas Schluck Eric Jones, Bo Stenfors, Peter Weston
1968 » Steve Stiles Ed Cox, Ted Johnstone
1969 « Eddie Jones Bob Shaw
1970 » Elliot Shorter Charlie Brown, Bill Rotsler Heicon (the 1970 Worldcon) had decided prior to the convention to select the TAFF winner as its Fan Guest of Honor.
1971 « Mario Bosnyak Per Insulander, Terry Jeaves, Peter Weston
1973 » Len & June Moffatt Howard DeVore, Frank & Ann Dietz
1974 « Peter Weston Peter Roberts
1976 » Roy Tackett and Bill Bowers The vote was tied so both went.
1977 « Peter Roberts Terry Jeeves, Peter Presford
1979 » Terry Hughes Fred Haskell, Suzanne Tompkins
1980 « Dave Langford Jim Barker The Transatlantic Hearing Aid
1981 » Stu Shiffman Gary Farber
1982 « Kevin Smith Rog Peyton
1983 » Avedon Carol Grant Canfield, Larry Carmody, Taral Wayne
1984 « Rob Hansen D. West On the TAFF Trail
1985 » Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden Rich Coad, Martha Beck
1986 « Greg Pickersgill Judith Hanna, Simon Ounsley
1987 » Jeanne Gomoll Bill Bowers, Brian Earl Brown, Mike Glicksohn, Robert Lichtman
1988 « Lilian Edwards & Christina Lake Martin Tudor, Dave Wood
1989 » Robert Lichtman Luke McGuff
1991 « Pam Wells Abigail Frost, Bruno Ogrolec
1992 » Jeanne Bowman Richard Brandt
1993 « Abigail Frost Mike Ashley, Tony Berry, Ashley Watkins Frost's administration of TAFF subsequent to her trip was fraught and resulted in the loss of much of the European TAFF funds.
1995 » Dan Steffan Sananda b Jeude, Joe Wesson
1996 « Martin Tudor M. J. "Simo" Simpson
1998 » Ulrika O'Brien Victor Gonzalez, Vicki Rosenzweig, Tom Sadler
1998 « Maureen Kincaid Speller Chris Bell, Bridget Hardcastle This 2nd 1998 race was held as a "catch up" for the missed 1997 TAFF race.
1999 » Velma "Vjay" Bowen Sarah Prince
2000 « Sue Mason Tommy Ferguson, Tobes Valois
2001 » Victor Gonzalez Tom Springer
2002 « Tobes Valois Chris O'Shea
2003 » Randy Byers Colin Hinz, Mike Lowrey, Curt Phillips
2004 « James Bacon Anders Holmstrom
2005 » Suzanne (Suzle) Tompkins Chaz Boston Baden, Curt Phillips
2006 « Bridget Bradshaw Authur Cruttenden
2007 » (no winner) Chris Garcia, Mary Kay Kare The winner would have attended Convoy the 2007 Eastercon in Liverpool which was cancelled. The 2007 eastbound TAFF race was postponed to 2008.
2008 » Chris Garcia Chris Barkley, Linda Deneroff, Christian McGuire
2009 « Steve Green Tom Womack
2010 » Brian Gray && Anne KG Murphy Frank Wu
2011 « John Coxon Graham Charnock, Liam Proven, Paul Treadaway