CEO, Marine Weather Intelligence 

Christian Dumard

Christian Dumard has been professional navigator during the 80s and the 90s (Corum Sailing Team, French America’s Cup Team). Christian has being doing weather routing and pre race weather analysis for the racing boats for the past 20 years (Trophée Jules Verne, Volvo Ocean Race, Figaro sailors, Route du Rhum, …).

Great Circle was founded in 2010 by Gerald Bibot and Christian was in the project since the beginning. Great Circle provides high quality marine weather services and data for boats as well as for race management. The company has been working for major events such as the Volvo Ocean Race and the Vendée Globe.

The company had developed new tools to monitor the weather conditions for each of the boats and to anticipate the severe conditions they could encounter. Great Circle also helps race management to decide about the choice of the best courses depending on the expected evolution of the wind.