The quest to win the 36th Americas Cup.

Britannia foiling monohull. INEOS TEAM UK Chief Designer Nick Holroyd outlined the complexity of the challenge. However a partnership between the UKs Americas Cup challenger INEOS Team UK and ELG Carbon Fibre is enabling new more sustainable innovations. INEOS TEAM UK Chief Designer Nick Holroyd noted the complexity of the challenge.

This AC75 is the first foiling monohull of this size its unlike anything ever seen on the water before its hugely ambitious and it sets out an entirely new type of boat and with only eighteen months to design and build there comes challenges but thats what makes the Cup so exciting. The British AC75 foiling monohull named Britannia had one significant difference from their first generation boat with the addition of a bustle keel. The British have launched their Americas Cup boat paying homage to history with their futuristic design.

Subscribe to follow INEOS TEAM UK. One of the most technical boats ever built it needs to reach take-off speed as quickly as possible - across a range of wind speeds and angles - and pass through the air with the minimum of resistance. This brings the total to four and provides us with plenty of opportunity to analyse the differences that are already apparent.

The bustle is supposed to help reduce the. Latest footage of Americas Cup team INEOS TEAMUK foiling on the Solent Portsmouth UK. The Italian pair have become YouTube stars with their insightful comments on the new Americas Cup AC75 class and their latest video looks at the foiling problems of Britannia the British second-generation boat.

The Americas Cup boats are bigger faster and more technical than. This AC75 is the first foiling monohull of this size its unlike anything ever seen on the water before its hugely ambitious and it sets out an entirely new type of boat and with only eighteen months to design and build there comes challenges but thats what makes the Cup so exciting The name. AC75 Britannia helmed by Sir Ben Ainslie.

Sir Ben Ainslie hopes to rule the Cup waves with a cutting-edge boat named Britannia. For this boat Welbourn added winglets to the rudder and employed a pair of curved foils that partially retract upward into the hull. Welbourns Quant 23 may not be the first fully foiling monohullthe foiling Moth and the Glide Free kit for Lasers predate itbut it is the first ballast keel-equipped monohull to foil.