Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com

[fogmachine]

@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.

[kbsali]

@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.

[fogmachine]

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.

[idefix37]

@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

[fogmachine]

@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.

[idefix37]

@fogmachine
I’m not a programmer, I don’t know.

[kbsali]

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.

[fogmachine]

@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.

[markus61]

MUCH better then the official tracking! thanx guys! /markus

[idefix37]

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.

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.

[Gkikas LGPZ]

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

[Pichulonco]

Hi, is somebody generating a tracker plugin for the vendee globe 2024?? Pleeaaassseee.

[idefix37]

@Pichulonco
No unfortunately as explained here

[Pichulonco]

@idefix37
too sad. Thanks for your hint. (Y)

[Mahieu hugo]

Hello there will be an update for 2024 ? best regards

[David Polášek]

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

[idefix37]

@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.

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 !