THE EXIT INTERVIEW

The New York YC’s American Magic finished well shy of expectations with its second America’s Cup challenge, and once again, the boss must question everything.

DAVE REED

IT’S mid-October, and the bases of Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli, Alinghi Red Bull Racing and American Magic are ghost towns, save for shore teams decamping and craning chase boats onto the hard. All three have been dismissed from the Louis Vuitton Cup, leaving INEOS Britannia to eventually get crushed by Emirates Team New Zealand 7-2 in the 37th America’s Cup Match. American Magic’s skipper and president of sailing operations, Terry Hutchinson, meets me at Gate M29, the high-security entrance to the team’s Barcelona base. He escorts me through a second security gate and then through the team’s bike-storage room, usually jampacked. With most of the team’s sailors and cyclors sent packing after three long years of going hard, there’s plenty of parking. We continue to the front office, where boxed computer…

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Sailing World (Digital) - 1 Issue, Winter 2025

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