Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com
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@kbsali PS: I was race sailing also 16 years ago. Category "Mono Proto B". We won many races with Thompson T850 boat.
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Super work! Thankyou very much!
Can you do a plug in for the two trimarans competing for Joules Verne Trophy? -
@rdretcanu I have contaccted both teams but no answer so far. I was told that Gitana is not willing to share their data.
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@ivo said in Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com:
Kevin Saliou
Excellent work Windy and Kevin Saliou!!!
Kevin Saliou - any chance of the Jules Verne overlay too!?!? :)
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@kbsali thank you so much Kevin! Awesome work :)
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@Elysian-Captain sorry, as mentioned before, the teams don't want to share their data
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@kbsali boa tarde preciso de ajuda , alguém poderia me explicar a direção dos ventos, as setas que aparecem, sou meio desentendido disto
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@ivo yesterday it made it to the weather forecast of one of the national tv channel! :D
https://www.france.tv/france-2/meteo-2/2079877-emission-du-mercredi-25-novembre-2020.htmlK. Saliou
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@kbsali said in Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com:
@ivo yesterday it made it to the weather forecast of one of the national tv channel! :D
https://www.france.tv/france-2/meteo-2/2079877-emission-du-mercredi-25-novembre-2020.htmlThat's really great! @kbsali
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@kbsali
Wow, nice to see your plugin on France 2 tv channel ! -
@kbsali Looking forward to combining routing to the plugin! I currently manually track racers in another app to generate routes, would be much better to get this from the race organizers who should have more accurate polars.
Seeing the VG organization make good use of Windy, especially the satellite overlay, in their official daily updates is awesome.
For the Jules Verne, the Gitana tracker has both boats and is updated hourly. Don't know if it's worth scraping the data. http://www.gitana-team.com/en/tracker.aspx
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@kbsali has explain several times that Trophée Jules Vernes teams are not willing to share their data.
Read the posts above.
By the way, the 2 boats shown by Gitana tracker are the Gitana trimaran and the previous winner i.e. Idec skipped by Francis Joyon. They are not the 2 boats racing actually for the Jules Vernes trophy, Gitana and Sodebo. -
It would be interesting to get the polars of the boats. Suppose its secret and not available.
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@rittels
Do you mean the polars of each boat sailing the Vendée Globe? I don’t think there are available. What is available are the polars of a ‘standard’ IMOCA class boat. -
@kbsali
Hi Kevin, it seems you have added a 'future best track' for each boat probably plotted by a routing software. Which one do you use?
That's very useful and interesting to see the boats surfing on strong winds associated with roaring forties depressions.
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Hi @idefix37
Well spotted, I should have announced it here too (only did it over twitter this morning).
Yes : new version available with 3 days routing predictions loaded when you open the info popup of a boat.
This is provided by squid and is based on the GFS model (I need to check if we can preselect "GFS" instead of "ECMWF" :)) -
@kbsali
Personally I prefer to keep the wind map as forecast by the ECMWF, even if the routing track is based on GFS. -
@idefix37 ah ok, why is that?
K. Saliou
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@kbsali
There are more details in wind field even at Gale or Storm level weather. But if you prefer to preselect GFS when loading your plugin, why not if it is possible to switch back to ECMWF. And with GFS as default model for the plugin, it would obviously be more consistent -
@kbsali
Hello, a small issue that other users have probably noted : the routing track is not updated at same time as the boat position.
The 2 black points on the routing track are the predicted position at 12h, 24h lapse time?
