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TC man sails to top
Former resident a tactician in the America's Cup
BY JAMES COOK

The Associated Press Emirates Team New Zealand, left, sails next to Swiss Defender Alinghi.

TRAVERSE CITY — To put it in layman's terms for those unfamiliar with sailing, Terry Hutchinson is in his version of the Super Bowl.
The former Traverse City resident is a big component in this year's America's Cup, the granddaddy of sailing competitions.
"He's ascended in the world of sailing to the top,” said Ed Reynolds, president and co-owner of Quantum Sails, where Hutchinson worked for several years after college. "This is his life-long dream. The guy has been on a relentless pursuit for 25 years and has achieved it.
"The local sailing community is proud. He was out sailing with us on Wednesday and now he's Peyton Manning trying to win the Super Bowl.”
Manning won his Super Bowl this year, and the 37-year-old Hutchinson is chasing sailing's version of the holy grail.
This year's America's Cup has some interesting plots, especially the matchup between the Swiss team Alinghi and Emirates Team New Zealand.
Hutchinson
The New Zealanders won back-to-back Cup titles in 1995 and 2000 (both in 5-0 sweeps), but was hit with a large defection of its best sailors to Swiss team Alinghi shortly after the second victory.
In the next America's Cup, the Kiwi-led Alinghi swept New Zealand 5-0, embarrassing New Zealand on its home waters.
Three years ago, the Kiwis turned to Hutchinson as their tactician, an unpopular move at the time. Bringing in an American to fill such an important position in a country where sailing is one of the top sports was vilified. Only six of the 28 team members are non-New Zealanders.
But that was then, and this is now.
Hutchinson has outmaneuvered one of the all-time greats in competitive sailing's history — former New Zealand skipper Brad Butterworth — to put the Kiwis up 2-1 on Alinghi in the best-of-nine series.
"Unless you're hooked into the sport, you probably don't appreciate it,” Reynolds said. "But New Zealand has beaten perhaps the greatest tactician ever on tactical calls by Terry.”
The fourth race is Thursday, and two more wins by Hutchinson and his crew would end the three-time reign of Butterworth's as the sport's supreme tactician.
In head-to-head competition heading into the America's Cup, Emirates Team New Zealand has won six out of 10 matches with Alinghi.
"On the first run we picked some nice places to gybe and they didn't really get away from us,” Hutchinson said on the team's Web site. "On the run into the bottom, we gybed in a tough position for Alinghi and then they gave us the right gate when we had the left gate favoured by about 10 degrees. Further up the leg we were coming at them on port. They tacked about a length to leeward of our sailing line and we were able to pin them there out to the layline. The boat was going well but we did not lose concentration at any point in the race. We know the chances are that the boat in the lead at the first cross will win. Yesterday we sailed a really good race, but we didn't win because the breaks went Alinghi's way. Today one came to us and we took advantage of it.”
Reynolds, 52, and Hutchinson became best of friends in the time Hutchinson was in TC, and the two still talk almost daily, especially during the Cup.
Reynolds has even been invited to the New Zealand by the team, but doesn't know when he'll be able to go, because of his work schedule.
While Hutchinson was in Traverse City in the '90s, the Grand Traverse Yacht Club held fund raisers to send him to the Congressional Cup in Long Beach, Calif., a race he won, which added to his already impressive college credentials and helped get him noticed on the national level.
Hutchinson earned first-team All-American honors in each of his four years at Old Dominion and helped lead the Monarchs to four national championships. In 1989 and 1990 he was named National Collegiate Sailor of the Year — the first person to accomplish the feat twice.