Renishaw technology helps Ineos Team UK progress
12 February 2021 • In News
Sir Ben Ainslie and Ineos Team UK have succeeded in winning a place in the Prada America’s Cup World Series Final which starts on 13
th February.
Ineos Team UK will compete against the Italian team, Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli, for the challenger spot in the America’s Cup event against the defending champions, Emirates Team New Zealand, in March.
Ineos Team UK is sailing its AC75 boat ‘Britannia’, which has a 75-foot foiling mono-hull, built and equipped with some of Britain’s best technology.
As the team’s official additive manufacturing (AM) and precision measurement partner, Renishaw has helped build the technologically advanced boat and has provided its engineering expertise throughout the project.
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Tom Dillane is a reporter at the New Zealand Heraldtom.dillane@nzme.co.nz@tomdillane1
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Work s back and school s in session again, but the weekend s here, it s still summer and the superstar yachties battling to challenge Team New Zealand for the America s Cup are set to return to Auckland s Hauraki Gulf today.
Christmas wasn’t a happy one for Ben Ainslie and his Ineos Team UK. They are in Auckland, New Zealand, trying to win the America’s Cup, the oldest trophy in world sport, taken from British waters under Queen Victoria’s nose in 1851 and never won back. But in the preliminary America’s Cup World Series, Ineos Team UK was embarrassingly off the pace. They lost to the Americans, failed to even finish against the Italians and lost to the Kiwis. Then.