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ROAD TO THE CUP

In recent weeks we have seen the first AC75s start to fly, but the engineering and sailing techniques needed to get these new monohulls to foil are very different to the catamarans of the previous Cup cycles.

In the second of a series of articles, Sir Ben Ainslie, the skipper and team principal of British America’s Cup challenger INEOS Team UK, talks exclusively to Mark Chisnell about the technology that goes into the new AC75s.

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