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Image from the second half of the Bay of Biscay crossing under jury-rig, with a force 8 wind and squalls, was a rather rough. The SolOceans One-design sailed at an average of 10 knots for several hours and surfed at 17 knots for better performance.Racing yachts and their competitive sailors are the laboratories and citizen scientists being tapped to collect and validate data from the ocean-atmosphere interface for scientific projects by The OceanoScientific® Programme. In the past, racing yachts have been equipped with scientific sensors, but the possibilities were always very limited because of the competition and onboard conditions. In 2006, the French Sailing Federation (FFVoile) launched the SolOceans race, which from the beginning combined the sportive aspects of a sailing race in the Southern Ocean with the scientific need for data. Read about it here.

Kramp et al., posted on July 5th, 2010
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