Having put all of these guys through some pretty brutal testing sessions we are pretty impressed with their natural ability but also the extent they will go through to.

Ac75 grinding. A grinder is a crew member on a yacht whose duties include operating manual winches called coffee grinders that raise and trim the sails and move the boom. Nope itʼs not a next generation super bike clutch. In the coming Americas Cup the AC75 rule requires the sailors to power the control of the soft wing mainsail and the headsail along with legal rig adjustments like the runners but allows.

The radical foiling design gave him flashbacks to the 2013 Cup in San Francisco in. INEOS Team UK relaunched its first AC75 Britannia 1 in the UK in the first week of June. Of the eleven sailors onboard the teams AC75 racing boat DEFIANT eight are tasked nearly full time with grinding the process of generating the immense hydraulic pressure needed to.

Youre very aware. The double skin mainsail probably requires a dedicated trimmer. Exploring The Generation 1 Americas Cup 75.

When the class rule for the AC75 was revealed Ineos Team UK grinder David Freddie Carr expected the worst. Whilst the batteries control the main foils and rudders everything above the waterline including every sail control is powered by the onboard grinders using pedestals supplied. Although the boats will be foiling most of the time it is going to be incredibly important to have a hull which gets you foiling as quickly as possible Bernasconi says.

Aside from his role as executive director of the US syndicate aboard the teams AC75 Defiant Hutchinson provides critical tactical input from his vantage point at the aft port grinding station. INEOS Team UK grinder David Carr reveals what life is like in Ben Ainslies Americas Cup crew When you push off the dock your life is in the hands of computers and the guy piloting the boat out of the water of course. Terry Hutchinson has been our guest on The Yacht Racing Podcast on two occasions.

In the 36th edition of the Americas Cup the role of the grinder is more important now than ever before. In the 36th edition of the Americas Cup the role of the grinder is more important than ever before. The AC75 Class Rule forbids self-tacking headsails and requires that the crew must unload a sheet from one winch and load the other sheet onto another winch during tacks and gybes.