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Terry Hutchinson

Personal information
Nationality	American
Born	May 20, 1968 (1968-05-20) (age 56) Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.
Sport
Country	USA
Sport	Sailing
College team	Old Dominion University
Club	West River Sailing Club

Terry Hutchinson (born May 20, 1968) is an American sailor eleven-time world champion in the Corel 45, J/24, TP 52, Farr 40 and IMS classes, and a winning tactician of the Louis Vuitton Cup. In 2008 and 2014, he was named Rolex Yachtsman of the Year. He has also been part of five America's Cup campaigns.

Background

He grew up in Annapolis, Maryland and went to St. Mary's High School.

Sailing career

Early

Hutchinson earned first team All-American honors in each of his four years at Old Dominion University, and helped lead the Monarchs to four national championships: Sloop Championship in 1989 and 1990, Coed Dinghy Championship in 1989, and Team Racing Championship in 1990. He received the ICSA College Sailor of the Year award In 1989 and 1990 and was named Old Dominion's alumni Association's Male Athlete of the Year in 1990.

Right afterwards, he won the Key West Race Week in 1990 and 1991 (Class 1 with "Collaboration"); 1992 (Class 2 with "Sensation"); 1994, 1995 and 1996 (Class 2 with "Flash Gordon"); and 1998 (Class 1 with "Bright Star").

In between, he also won the Congressional Cup in 1992, his first World Championship, at the 1995 Corel 45 Worlds with "Titan", and the National Championship in Mumm 36 with "Sandman" in 1997. In 1998, he took his second Worlds in Corel 45 with "Heatwave".

In the J/24 class, he became North American Champion in 1997 and repeated in 1998, when he also won the World Championship, with "Evita".

In 2000, Terry Hutchinson, as helmsman of "Vim", a Nelson/Marek 43 boat owned by Craig Speck, won the Racing Division title in the IMS Offshore World Championship.

Hutchinson went on to win the Farr 40 World Championship in 2014, 2016 and 2017 as tactician on Alex Roeper’s "Plenty", and the Farr 40 North American Championship and the California Cup.

He also won the TP 52 World Championship title in 2008, 2010, 2011, 2014 and 2022 as both helmsman and tactician of Quantum Racing.

He sailed in the 2001–02 Volvo Ocean Race as tactician on Djuice Dragons.

Terry is also famously known for yelling "priority staysail" at top marks prior to kite up and jib down.

World Championship Titles

America Cup

Hutchinson has been a key part of six America’s Cup campaigns (all unsuccessful):

• 2000 Louis Vuitton Cup, mainsail trimmer for America One
• 2003 Louis Vuitton Cup, tactician for Stars & Stripes
• 2007 America's Cup, tactician for Emirates Team New Zealand
• 2011–13 America's Cup World Series, skipper for Artemis Racing
• 2021 Prada Cup, skipper and grinder for American Magic (also served as executive director)
• 2024 Challenger selection series, skipper (non-sailer) and President of Sailing for American Magic

References

1. "Quantum Racing Team". Quantum Sails. Archived from the original on January 7, 2017. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
2. "American Magic, led by Anne Arundel County native Terry Hutchinson, eliminated from America's Cup". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on February 6, 2021. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
3. "American Magic skipper Terry Hutchinson discusses what went wrong at America's Cup". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on February 6, 2021. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
4. "Local America's Cup helmsman Terry Hutchinson savors rare break with family". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on February 8, 2017. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
5. "Terry Hutchinson profile". Old Dominion University Athletics. Archived from the original on January 7, 2017. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
6. "Terry Hutchinson". AmericaOne. Archived from the original on August 28, 2021. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
7. "North American Champions". International J/24 Class Association. Archived from the original on September 21, 2020. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
8. "World Champions". International J/24 Class Association. Archived from the original on September 21, 2020. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
9. ^ "Vim cleans up at the IMS world championship". Yachting World. July 19, 2000. Archived from the original on March 4, 2021. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
10. "Hutchinson, Roble Named Top U.S. Sailors in 2014". US Sailing. Archived from the original on January 7, 2017. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
11. "SEB Flies Without Navigator". November 29, 2001. Archived from the original on January 18, 2022. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
12. "Crew Changes All Around". November 8, 2001. Archived from the original on December 16, 2019. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
13. ^ Administrator. "Rolex Farr 40 Worlds". Archived from the original on August 24, 2016. Retrieved July 28, 2016.
14. "Team Nika wins RC44 World Championship". Scuttlebutt Sailing News. August 13, 2017. Archived from the original on September 25, 2017. Retrieved October 25, 2017.

External links

• Terry Hutchinson at World Sailing

• 1968 births
• Living people
• American male sailors (sport)
• ICSA College Sailor of the Year
• US Sailor of the Year
• 2003 America's Cup sailors
• 2000 America's Cup sailors
• 2007 America's Cup sailors
• 2021 America's Cup sailors
• World champions in sailing for the United States
• J/24 class world champions
• Farr 40 class world champions
• TP 52 class world champions
• Old Dominion Monarchs sailors
• Artemis Racing sailors
• Team New Zealand sailors
• Volvo Ocean Race sailors
• Extreme Sailing Series sailors
• American Magic
• Sportspeople from Annapolis, Maryland
• 20th-century American sportsmen