Three-time America’s Cup athlete Nick Hutton will be back on the handles on-board the Emirates Great Britain SailGP Team’s F50 for the 2025 Season. Hutton will be taking on the role of Trimmer/Grinder, trimming the jib and providing the power needed to manoeuvre the wing on the F50.
Nick Hutton joined Emirates GBR for Season 3 as a Trimmer/Grinder, bringing with him a wealth of experience on-board SailGP's cutting-edge F50 catamaran. Hutton spent Season 2 with the Australia SailGP Team, with whom he won the Season Championship with at the Grand Final in San Francisco.
Hutton said: “I’m super happy to back with Emirates GBR for another season of SailGP. We’ve got new teams, new T-Foils and new venues. It’s going to be an awesome year ahead with the crew and we can’t wait to start the season off with our home-from-home event in Dubai later this month.”
© Ricardo Pinto for SailGP
Ricardo Pinto for SailGP
Hutton grew up sailing on the River Dart in Devon, where his parents ran a mast building business. Nick graduated to sailing cadets out of Exmouth and it was here that his simple ambition to “get paid to race boats” cemented itself in his mind at the age of 12.
Sailing runs deep in the family, with both his father and his grandfather being keen yachtsmen. His parents would take him out on their boat as a baby and strap his moses basket to the deck; he spent a lot of his early childhood afloat and took to the helm from the age of 5. Hutton sailed in his first World Championships in Tasmania when he was 12 years old and came fifth, which gave him the appetite to achieve more.
© Samo Vidic for SailGP
Samo Vidic for SailGP
Hutton made his America's Cup debut in 2012, with the Italian entry ‘Prada Luna Rossa Challenge’, and took home two America’s Cup World Series wins (2011/12 and 2015/16). Following this, he joined the British Challenger for the 35th America’s Cup, which included winning the America’s Cup World Series and reaching the semi-final stages of the AC Challenger Series. Hutton returned to the INEOS UK Team to compete in the 36th America's Cup in Auckland, where they reached the final of the Challenger Series.
© Ricardo Pinto for SailGP
Ricardo Pinto for SailGP
Hutton will return to the Emirates GBR F50 at the first event of SailGP’s fifth season, the Emirates Dubai Sail Grand Prix presented by P&O Marinas on 23-24 November.