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METEO CONSULT
The mission of METEO CONSULT, Partner of La Route du Rhum – La Banque Postale, consists in providing :
- the best information to ensure the safety of the competitors of the race.
- the audience with clear explanations to understand the race.
Organization and safety: it is more than 20 years of experience in marine weather and especially near the racing sailors which make METEO CONSULT the ideal partner for a quality assistance. The crossing of the North Atlantic in November can hold particularly testing conditions for the men as for the boats (one can remember the consequences of the storms of 2002) and it is important that the organizer can anticipate such events.
METEO CONSULT’ team works with demanding directors, that it is for the oil industry which operates at sea or for the National Marine. METEO CONSULT can analyze the extent of the phenomena and the risks incurred to help with the decisions.
Explanations to the audience: it is with more than 15 years of experience of the media and in particular with its diffusions on LA CHAINE METEO that the team of forecasters endeavours to transmit its expertise to the audience. Our objective is to enable each one to understand the choices of way which make the suspense of the transatlantic races.
Indeed, the shortest way is seldom tre fastest. To win the Race, it is necessary to play without fault with the weather situations which are in perpetual evolution in space and time. Each skipper chooses its option: southern, northern or intermediate way according to the depressions (to be avoided or use), of the anticyclones (to be crossed in spite of the calm ones or to circumvent), of the trade winds (with being gone to seek now or later).
It is thus to follow with you this enthralling race that METEO CONSULT gives you an appointment on a video updated 2 times per day at 9 AM and 7 PM for the explanations of the forecaster on our two websites :
"We are working hard preparing the boat on the water and 3 new sails in my sail loft “Andrea Mura sail design”. At the end of august we will take the boat out of the water to paint the fluo orange antifouling on the rudder and the keel. The 10 of September we will have national press conference in cagliari – Sardinia. Immediately after the press conference I will depart from Cagliari to Saint-Malo. About 2.000 mile alone to make training and qualification. I should sailing for about 15 days. Arrive in Saint-Malo on 25° just on time for the press conference in Paris on 28 September".
After setting out from Lorient, Groupama 3's port of registry, on Wednesday 7th July, to perform the qualifier for the Route du Rhum, Franck Cammas made it back to port on the evening of Sunday 11th.