News

2.11.2005

Alinghi, Defender of the 32nd America’s Cup, is US bound

Brad Butterworth
(Photo credit: Th.Martinez/Alinghi)

Alinghi vice-president, tactician and skipper Brad Butterworth, veteran match-racer and one of Alinghi’s three helmsmen, Ed Baird and Alinghi general counsel and America’s Cup historian, Hamish Ross, will be touring the west coast of the USA from 16 to 21 November. The team will make five yacht club stops to do a chalk-talk with junior yacht club members and a presentation to the members, sponsors and friends of Alinghi. The mission: to share the experience of being the America’s Cup Defender with the American public. Hamish will give an overview of the America’s Cup history and Alinghi’s part in it, Brad will explain what Alinghi is all about, the values, the spirit and what the team stands for and Ed will describe what it is like to be a part of the defending team, day to day team life and the racing.

Alinghi’s first stop will be the Chicago Yacht Club on the 16th November, before heading west to Long Beach Yacht Club on the 17th and continuing on to the California Yacht Club in Marina del Rey for the 18th and later the Seattle Yacht Club on the 20th. The tour will finish at the St Francis Yacht Club on the 21st November.

Hamish Ross
(Photo credit: Steve Tee)

Ed Baird
(Photo credit: Ivo Rovira/Alinghi)

• Brad Butterworth (NZ) is a three-time America’s Cup winner. This will be his sixth campaign and he has recently been named skipper of the America’s Cup Defender, Alinghi.
• Ed Baird (USA) is one of three Alinghi helmsmen. He is a veteran match racer, the only American to rank ISAF No.1 and the only American winner of the World Championship of Match Race Sailing, not once but three times: in 1995, 2003 and again in 2004.
• Hamish Ross (NZ) is Alinghi general counsel and an America’s Cup historian. He has been with Alinghi since the 2000 and previously represented the New York Yacht Club’s Young America campaign from 1995-2000.