NICK HUTTON

Hometown: Landscove, Devon

IG: @nickgbr

Key Achievements:

1 x SailGP Season 2 Champion

3 x America's Cup Campaigns

2 x America's Cup World Series Winner

 

Nick 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. He 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 and returned for the 36th America's Cup in Auckland, where they reached the final of the Challenger Series. Hutton joined Emirates GBR for Season 3 as a Trimmer/Grinder, a physically demanding role which involves trimming the jib and providing the power needed to manoeuvre the wing on the F50. He brought a wealth of experience with him when he joined Emirates GBR, as he spent Season 2 with the Australia SailGP Team, with whom he won the Season Championship with at the Grand Final in San Francisco.