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Our user Kevin Saliou created WIndy Plugin, that tracks unofficial positions of Vendée Globe. So far plugin works on desktop only, but we hope this will not be issue.

To open the plugin go to Menu -> Install Windy Plugin and open the plugin Regadata.

Enjoy the plugin and Stay Safe!!!! Especially if you are one of the Vendee Globe racer.

Ivo

]]>https://community.windy.com/topic/14475/track-vendée-globe-progress-on-windy-comRSS for NodeMon, 11 May 2026 06:37:47 GMTWed, 25 Nov 2020 06:44:10 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com on Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:49:20 GMT]]>@David-Polášek
Hi David,
The weather chart shown in the Vendée Globe website is apparently provided by Marine Weather Intelligence MWI
https://marine-weather.com/
This brand new company has been launched by 2 persons, one of them, Christian Dumard, is very well known in France as a routing specialist and a marine meteorologist. In addition he used to provide training on the use of Windy for sailing.
Here is an article from Ouest-France newspaper, explaining how MWI plans to base their technology (translated from French):
“ The MWI Yachting app will be based on the Windy weather forecasting tool, to which routing sheets will be added. "We want it to be as intuitive, fluid and educational as possible," says Basile Rochut, co-founder of the company in Auray. Depending on its analyses and needs, Marine Weather Intelligence will be able to communicate more easily with its customers via a chat. The app will be accessible on the web and will be a paid service. Prices will depend on the services used.”
Did MWI get an agreement with Windy via the API ?
That would explain why wind and waves color scale and particles animation on the Vendée Globe cartography is very similar to Windy design.

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What model is used ?
Finally the Vendée Globe organisation does not want to share its data (the position of boats for tracking) with Windy, but Windy shares its weather data with it !

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/202924https://community.windy.com/post/202924Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:49:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com on Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:13:09 GMT]]>Hey @Mahieu-hugo

We would love to, but organizers seem to have no interest in collaboration. We haven't received any answer from them. We are open to collaborating with any yacht races, but it's necessary that they are open, too.

https://community.windy.com/topic/37370/2024-vendee-globe-yacht-tracking/6

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/202894https://community.windy.com/post/202894Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:13:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com on Mon, 11 Nov 2024 11:15:28 GMT]]>Hello there will be an update for 2024 ? best regards

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/202891https://community.windy.com/post/202891Mon, 11 Nov 2024 11:15:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com on Mon, 11 Nov 2024 09:47:44 GMT]]>@idefix37
too sad. Thanks for your hint. (Y)

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/202887https://community.windy.com/post/202887Mon, 11 Nov 2024 09:47:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com on Sun, 10 Nov 2024 16:34:25 GMT]]>@Pichulonco
No unfortunately as explained here

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/202861https://community.windy.com/post/202861Sun, 10 Nov 2024 16:34:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com on Sun, 10 Nov 2024 16:26:50 GMT]]>Hi, is somebody generating a tracker plugin for the vendee globe 2024?? Pleeaaassseee.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/202860https://community.windy.com/post/202860Sun, 10 Nov 2024 16:26:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com on Sat, 13 Feb 2021 10:55:40 GMT]]>WMO (World Meteorological Organization) says thank you
to all the Vendée Globe skippers for Sailing for Science.
https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/sailing-science

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/70747https://community.windy.com/post/70747Sat, 13 Feb 2021 10:55:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com on Mon, 11 Jan 2021 15:45:47 GMT]]>Nothing to do with the Vendée Globe race, Gitana 17, a flying trimaran 32m (104ft) long, took a second start yesterday in an attempt to beat the record for sailing around the world. The weather briefing was presented by Marcel van Triest, the Gitana router, using Wind and Waves forecast on Windy.

Capture d’écran 2021-01-10 à 14.43.43.png

http://www.gitana-team.com/en/article.aspx?id=1269

Unfortunately as @kbsali said, they are not willing to share their position data to allow using it with the Windy tracking plugin.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/68031https://community.windy.com/post/68031Mon, 11 Jan 2021 15:45:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com on Tue, 29 Dec 2020 16:53:22 GMT]]>MUCH better then the official tracking! thanx guys! /markus

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/67017https://community.windy.com/post/67017Tue, 29 Dec 2020 16:53:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com on Mon, 21 Dec 2020 16:42:54 GMT]]>@kbsali I like the update, but it's not quite what we're after. Is the source on github somewhere? I found only the version from the last edition.
Screen Shot 2020-12-21 at 8.39.18 AM.jpg

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/66383https://community.windy.com/post/66383Mon, 21 Dec 2020 16:42:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com on Sun, 20 Dec 2020 18:06:50 GMT]]>hi @fogmachine,

thanks for the hint. I was proposed the same solution by the routing provider, but I haven't had the time to work on it just yet. I'll do this ASAP, it will affect the boats markers/lines & routing tracks starting tomorrow I believe.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/66289https://community.windy.com/post/66289Sun, 20 Dec 2020 18:06:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com on Sun, 20 Dec 2020 16:56:53 GMT]]>@fogmachine
I’m not a programmer, I don’t know.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/66283https://community.windy.com/post/66283Sun, 20 Dec 2020 16:56:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com on Sun, 20 Dec 2020 16:50:08 GMT]]>@idefix37 thx - those posts suggest that it can be fixed in the plugin by breaking lines crossing the anti-meridian into two segments. Maybe @kbsali can look into that; but since this is relatively easy for lines but more difficult for other shapes perhaps @ivo has another idea.

With other packages I've been able to either change the longitude range from [-180, 180] to [0, 360] or extend the range (wrapping over the anti-meridian) to [-360, 360]. These eliminate the discontinuity at the anti-meridian but I don't know if Windy's API allow either of these methods.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/66280https://community.windy.com/post/66280Sun, 20 Dec 2020 16:50:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com on Sun, 20 Dec 2020 12:42:52 GMT]]>@fogmachine
This issue with antimeridian is well know on Windy.

https://community.windy.com/topic/9680/route-planner-going-crazy-between-hawaii-and-marshall-islands?_=1608467580786

https://community.windy.com/topic/7505/bug-with-displaying-track-round-the-world/2?_=1608467580801

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/66272https://community.windy.com/post/66272Sun, 20 Dec 2020 12:42:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com on Sun, 20 Dec 2020 11:53:39 GMT]]>Either regadata or windy is having trouble drawing the Squid routing across the anti-meridian. You're in good company - qtVLM, OpenCPN, and some of the routing sw onboard the current VG racers have also had problems here.
2020-12-20_Windy+Regadata_Antimeridian.jpg

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/66269https://community.windy.com/post/66269Sun, 20 Dec 2020 11:53:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com on Fri, 11 Dec 2020 11:14:48 GMT]]>@fogmachine thanks for helping it out this! :)
I'll have a look into it over the weekend, but you are correct the timezone seems to be incorrect and depends on your browser's setting. I do not think not allowing to share your location causes the bug though.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/65437https://community.windy.com/post/65437Fri, 11 Dec 2020 11:14:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com on Fri, 11 Dec 2020 10:57:27 GMT]]>@kbsali With Firefox the report time is still not right in v1.2.4 - maybe it's due to

formattedDatetime = "".concat(reportDatetime.toLocaleTimeString(undefined, dtOptions));

which isn't converting from

timeZone: "Europe/Paris",

to UTC. With Safari it's note working at all, reporting "Invalid Date UTC" - this might be because I didn't allow windy location access.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/65433https://community.windy.com/post/65433Fri, 11 Dec 2020 10:57:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com on Wed, 09 Dec 2020 15:18:42 GMT]]>your plugin gets better and better. thanks for that, @kbsali.

any chance you can display the course and relative position of the course record of Armel Le Cleac'h in 2016/2017 and maybe even the one of François Gabart in 2012/2013?

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/65261https://community.windy.com/post/65261Wed, 09 Dec 2020 15:18:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com on Tue, 08 Dec 2020 18:34:45 GMT]]>@fogmachine
UTC +1

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/65163https://community.windy.com/post/65163Tue, 08 Dec 2020 18:34:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com on Tue, 08 Dec 2020 18:31:38 GMT]]>@idefix37 What time zone are you in?

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/65162https://community.windy.com/post/65162Tue, 08 Dec 2020 18:31:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com on Tue, 08 Dec 2020 13:04:31 GMT]]>@fogmachine
Hi, the UTC time seems correct for me, but the date is in French despite I've selected English. Are date and time linked to the user location? UTC time should be independent from location.

Capture d’écran 2020-12-08 à 13.56.23.png

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/65126https://community.windy.com/post/65126Tue, 08 Dec 2020 13:04:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com on Tue, 08 Dec 2020 12:36:34 GMT]]>@kbsali this doesn't look right - it should be the 11:00 UTC ranking. Could it be applying my local timezone offset? I'm in UTC -8. Loaded regadata v1.2.3.

2020-12-08_regadata_timestamp.jpg

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/65121https://community.windy.com/post/65121Tue, 08 Dec 2020 12:36:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com on Fri, 04 Dec 2020 08:47:25 GMT]]>@kbsali

Great job !!

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/64749https://community.windy.com/post/64749Fri, 04 Dec 2020 08:47:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com on Fri, 04 Dec 2020 01:20:39 GMT]]>@kbsali said in Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com:

I have just published v1.2.0 with quite some changes : it now shows a sidebar on the left with the current ranking and check boxes for each boat, allowing you to select which route you want to display. (because of a bug i'm still fighting against, I had to disable the "uncheck" option, so once a route is selected you cannot hide it unless you refresh the page and the plugin.

Fantastic, thank you :)

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/64730https://community.windy.com/post/64730Fri, 04 Dec 2020 01:20:39 GMT