Hutchinson’s first challenge as leader of the new American team was to find a way to scale up the winning ethos that had proved so successful in the Quantum Racing and Bella Mente campaigns to the much larger group American Magic was assembling from around the world to try to win sailing’s biggest prize. “I think we’re all relying on that being part of our competitive advantage as we go forward.” “I think when I look around our team, inside of American Magic, it’s unfinished business for a lot of folks,” Hutchinson told me during an interview of the latest episode of the Yacht Racing Podcast. He was named skipper of the Swedish syndicate Artemis Racing for the 34th Cup in San Francisco but chose to step down before the racing began. In 2007 he made it to the final as tactician with Emirates Team New Zealand before being beaten by the Swiss team Alinghi in Valencia. Hutchinson says the America’s Cup is very much unfinished business as far as he is concerned. Unsurprisingly then, when DeVos and Fauth along with fellow business titan Roger Penske pooled their resources to put together a challenge for the America’s Cup with the New York Yacht Club, Hutchinson was their automatic choice to lead the American Magic syndicate. The 50-year-old from Annapolis, Maryland has racked up countless world championship titles during his career and has played senior roles in four America’s Cup challenges as well as over the last few years acting as the lynchpin to two of the highest profile professional campaigns – Doug DeVos’ Quantum Racing TP52 and Hap Fauth’s Maxi 70 Bella Mente. 181210_ROSS_PENSACOLA_0148.CR2 – Fifth day of AM38 sailing in Pensacola, Florida.Īmerican yachtsman Terry Hutchinson is no stranger to success at the highest level in the sport of yacht racing.
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