Terry Hutchinson, Skipper and Executive Director of New York Yacht Club American Magic
The campaign for Auckland 2021 is the fifth career America’s Cup campaign for Terry Hutchinson, a New York Yacht Club member. He is a sixteen-time world champion in various classes, and has twice been named US Sailing Rolex Yachtsman of the Year. Mr. Hutchinson was a two-time College Sailor of the Year for Old Dominion University, where he also garnered All-American honors four times. He is a native of Annapolis, Maryland.
Hutchinson has been part of four America’s Cup campaigns: in the 2000 Louis Vuitton Cup he served as the mainsail trimmer on America One; in the 2003 Louis Vuitton Cup as tactician for Stars & Stripes, and in the 2007 America’s Cup as tactician for Emirates Team New Zealand helping lead the team to the only sweep in Louis Vuitton Final history. As skipper of Artemis Racing, he won the 2011-12 AC World Series Match Racing Championship.
About American Magic Team
Formed in October 2017 by Bella Mente Racing, Quantum Racing and the New York Yacht Club, American Magic represents a joint vision to win the America’s Cup, the highest prize in sailing and the oldest trophy in international sports. American Magic brings together two highly successful racing programs with one of the foremost yacht clubs in the world, united by a campaign to win back the Cup, reconnect the American sailing base with the premier event in the sport and elevate the quality of competitive sailing in the United States. The name, American Magic, is a nod to the the New York Yacht Club’s storied America’s Cup history; a combination of the boat the trophy is named for, and the first boat to defend it.
America’s Cup History
On August 22, 1851, the 101-foot schooner America, built by New York Yacht Club commodore and founder John Cox Stevens, raced against 15 English yachts from the Royal Yacht Squadron in the “100 Guinea Cup,” an annual lap of the Isle of Wight. The visiting America won, finishing 8 minutes ahead of its closest rival. The trophy was renamed after the winners and donated to the New York Yacht Club, along with the “Deed of Gift,” specifying that it be held in trust as a perpetual challenge trophy. So America’s prize became “The America’s Cup,” and took up residency across the Atlantic.
No challenge to race for the America’s Cup was issued until British tycoon James Lloyd Ashbury’s Cambria, which showed early promise during sea trials in the Solent. Representing the Royal Thames Yacht Club, the crew of Cambria believed that the trophy could be brought home and officially submitted the first America’s Cup challenge in 1870. Cambria, up against a 17-strong fleet of New York Yacht Club schooners in New York Harbor, placed eighth. Franklin Osgood’s Magic, the overall winner, successfully retained the America’s Cup and became the trophy’s very first defender.
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