Domin servo valves embark with INEOS Britannia for America’s Cup

Jerome Carson, product owner at Domin, said the company’s servo valves will be used on the main sail and traveller, extending potentially to the jib sheeting. Taken together, they will help the team to reduce weight and improve aerodynamics.

The 37^th America’s Cup takes place in Barcelona, with INEOS Britannia one of the six sailing teams competing for the world’s oldest sporting trophy. Held every four years, the teams will take to the sea in boats classified as AC75s and built without a keel. Instead, the boats are kept upright by electronically controlled foil cant arms that move under the boat. Foil wings on the end of the arms provide the stability, lift and speed when racing.

The teams build one AC75 and purchase at least one AC40, a multi-use foiling monohull designed and built by Team New Zealand that INEOS will use at Preliminary Regattas before being handed over to the Youth and Women's America's Cup teams. A third boat – an LEQ12 - can be built, which gives the teams that opt to build one a testbed for the technologies that will go onto the AC75. INEOS Britannia dubbed their LEQ12 ‘T6’.