INEOS Britannia looked scintillating on Wednesday as the team took to the water with their new slight-anhedral, long-span, port foil replete with its barrage of mounted cameras for a superb day of commissioning that will certainly have raised a smile with the design office and data engineers back at Mercedes Applied Science HQ in Brackley, Northamptonshire.
Bleddyn Mon, arguably the key link within the INEOS Britannia team between the sailing and technical sides of the programme, was trimming and flight controlling from the port side of ‘T6’ today and he gave a terrific run down of the new foil profile saying: “It’s kind of a concept that we’ve seen across a few of the teams so yeah early days for sure for us, very much a commissioning day really to be honest, making sure that it’s kind of actuating as expected and everything and we’ll have to have a look at the data tonight and see what we can see with it.”
Section 41. Reconnaissance
a) As a campaign cost reduction measure, COR/D has mutually agreed to cooperatively implement a centralised reconnaissance programme for all teams for the reconnaissance of all Competitors’ AC75 Yachts, AC40 Yachts and LEQ12 yachts including both on-land and on-water imagery (the “Joint Recon Programme”).
b) Each team is assigned a two-person Recon Unit to follow their every on-water move, but it’s not that simple. The cameras are supplied and identical for all Recon Units. Drones are not allowed, and they can’t get that close, plus following a boat and keeping a camera steady at 45 knots isn’t that easy to begin with.
c) A three minute interview follows each on water day, and teams must answer the Recon Unit’s questions while trying not to give too much away. It’s a raw, unedited view of the never before seen behind-the-scenes development of a team and their boat to win the oldest trophy in international sports.
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