Brad Butterworth

Bradley William Butterworth, OBE (born 1959), is a yachtsman known for the role he played as tactician and skipper in the America's Cup for Team New Zealand and the Alinghi team of Switzerland.

Biography

Butterworth was born in Te Awamutu, New Zealand in 1959. He has been sailing since age six.

Butterworth has sailed and been successful in many international sailing competitions, including the Admiral's Cup, the Kenwood Cup, the Sydney to Hobart Race, the Fastnet Race, the Whitbread Round The World Race and the America's Cup.

1987 was a busy year as he was the skipper of the top-ranked Admiral's Cup boat Propaganda when New Zealand won the Admiral's Cup in England.

He was also a watch captain on Steinlager II with Peter Blake when she won the 1989-90 Whitbread Round The World Race and skipper of a Whitbread 60 (later Volvo Ocean 60) class boat in the 1993/1994 race where he was associated with Dennis Conner and Tom Whidden.

In the 1995 Queen's Birthday Honours, Butterworth was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to yachting