Dylan joins INEOS

Dylan Fletcher is the newest recruit to INEOS Britannia’s sailing team. Fletcher recently won the Moth Worlds, to add to his Olympic 49er title with Stuart Bithell at Tokyo.

He said: “It’s something that I have dreamt about for a long time, pretty much since I started my Olympic carer. I thought – well, I want to win the America’s Cup for Great Britain, and I want to win a gold medal. Now I have gone and got that gold medal. Next step is to win the Cup for Great Britain.”

The Challenger of Record, INEOS Britannia received their AC40 in October and also elected to build their own prototype 40-footer, known as an LEQ12, and chose Palma, Mallorca, as their winter training base.

Team Principal and skipper Sir Ben Ainslie said: “The 37th America’s Cup venue announcement was a much-anticipated moment that we had all been waiting for, and it certainly did not disappoint. The team was delighted that Barcelona had been chosen as we knew it would provide excellent facilities for operations, competitive racing conditions and an engaging setting for visiting fans. We had already committed to a winter training camp in Palma, which meant that once the news was official our focus would be on a mid-summer 2023 move to the host venue. Our Barcelona base is now well under construction and in the coming months we are looking forward to moving in and immersing ourselves in the Barcelona community and experiencing that special Catalonian culture. With six teams entered there is already a buzz in the city ahead of us all hitting the water, this could be a special edition of the Auld Mug.”