Science outreach

Offshore racing is played out between sky and sea. These pages explain what happens around the boats: the weather that drives the skippers' choices and the ocean they cross.

Race cartography with the wind layer

Weather and strategy

Seven lessons to read the weather layers of the cartography and understand the fleet's choices: wind, gusts, clouds, waves, currents and temperatures.

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The Gulf Stream in the North Atlantic

Science in the North Atlantic

The great currents, the sargassum zones and the ocean phenomena the boats cross along their route.

Explore the ocean