The 2012 Vendée Globe Race starts today and racers are already counting on their marine navigation software to find the best possible route according to weather forecasts and some other important factors.
We’ve launched our Routing Module in order to see what’s the best option at the start of the race and this is what we’ve obtained:
In the image, we can see that at 10am on the 12th, there will be poor wind, which is bad news for the 20 skippers…so we’ve decided to relaunch it using the Alternative Routing feature to see if there could be another more accurate route surrounding that area:
What we’ve got, is a route that goes further in the Ocean, avoiding the Spanish Coast as compared to the previous one:
Here’s a reenactment of this second alternative route for the Vendée Globe racers:
We’ll see which one is taken by the skilled sailors…Good winds for all of them!