America’s Cup PART FOUR
BERMUDA REFLECTIONS
Philippa Hutton continues her ‘exclusive’ behind the scenes glimpse into Sir Ben Ainslie’s Land Rover BAR team campaigning to win the 2017 America’s Cup in Bermuda this summer. Her husband Nick Hutton (former resident of Kingswear) is part of the crew.
Above: Former residents of Kingswear Phillipa and Nick Hutton in Bermuda.
“utter-meyon,” says rafa as he looks glumly at the bowl of Cheerios I put in front of him, “utter-meyon mummy!” “Darling, we can’t grow watermelon in the garden at home I’m afraid and mummy’s darned if she’s going to break her back lugging one back to the car only to find that Tesco’s version doesn’t come up to your exacting standards.” rafa is unsympathetic and flings his little
below: Rafa living the dream in Bermuda.
bowl of ‘O’s across the kitchen. These little b******s – the O’s, not the average two year old – if you don’t mop them up pronto, have a definite Weetabix quality and will cement themselves to the floor pretty quickly, so I spend the next five minutes scrabbling around on all fours trying to
salvage the situation. rafa is delighted and drops his spoon on my head. This has been our pretty standard
breakfast charade since we returned from bermuda a month ago. I once managed to woo him with a brioche but that little victory was short-lived. Home, it would seem, is not quite the Hamilton princess Hotel – you just can’t get the service these days and I definitely can’t get the cleaners to rival those at the Fairmont. so yes, there are certain things that
we miss about bermuda living but it is definitely a bonus to have a husband/ father somewhat back in our lives. Nick is enjoying having a bit of downtime after the intensity of life as an America’s Cup sailor and as I write this is currently lying on the sofa drinking a beer and watching the golf – it’s a tough life for the unemployed. To give him credit, he hasn’t been that idle since we came home and has been away twice – once to sail in the round the Island race (where the yacht he was on managed to scrape a wreck a little way off the Needles… I didn’t have a quiet chuckle to myself at all) and more recently, to the the IrC east-Coast Nationals in Newport, rhode Island (where the team was a bit more successful and managed to win the regatta on board the Tp52 Gladiator). Next week he’s heading back to the Isle of Wight for Cowes Week and I think secretly is rather enjoying sailing on a boat that
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