Terry Hutchinson is like a big kid. Sporting a baseball cap and sunnies all the time, Terry walks around with a grin on his face, the gap between his two front teeth adding to a look that is more boisterous schoolboy than one of the most talented sailors on the planet.

Terry's youthful air makes it easy to like him, and his contributions to this site give us reason to cheer for him - and this week, he again gave us a lot to cheer for. Along with Scott Nixon, George Peet, Amy Ironmonger, and Brian Janney, Terry dominated what was probably the most talented fleet ever assembled for a Melges 24 event on this continent at the North Americans in Annapolis, MD.

The regatta itself was intense and exciting, with everything from 20+ knots to non-existent breeze, though the turning point of the event happened during the start of the fourth race run on Thursday. Over 20 boats were called back after a hectic countdown - and they included three of the top 5 boats. Flavio Favini on Blu Moon didn't hear his number until halfway up the beat, and they promptly sailed back the dock instead of continuing the race and neither Morgan Reeser (M-Fatic) or Dave Ullman heard their numbers - Ullman's radio was actually switched off when the call was made - and both were scored 50 for the race. From that point, only Gabrio Zandona on Joe Fly could catch Quantum, and Hutch sailed faster, smarter, and never gave them the opportunity. Ullman, Reeser, and Favini filed for redress for that fourth race, citing the NOR provision that only allowed the RC to run "2-3 races per day" - an argument that was tossed out once, then again after a re-hearing. Ullman is confident that an appeal would have merit, but to his credit, he and the rest of them chose to let it go.

We're not going to give you a full regatta report here - we didn't post 93 videos, hundreds of photos from Meredith Block (like the one above) and Sara Proctor, and thousands of words over the past week in order to repeat ourselves. In fact, if you're a sailboat racer of almost any kind, you owe it to yourself to read this report yourselves, and then you won't need to leaf through a press release. It's got a little of everything: Big air, light air, great video interviews, gorgeous pics of M24s and even some big IRC boats, drunken rambling, chicks with no panties, t-shirt contests, and some of the best buoy racing that's ever been broadcasted on the internet, from before the first gun through the end of the final party. We hope you all enjoyed it half as much as we enjoyed bringing it to you - look on this front page in a few days for more info about our next OTW Anarchy event.

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