If the router is working with a team at an inshore regatta they operate differently. The router will get an early start and gather information, observation and forecasts. They will distill this into a information package that will provide wind direction, current, and tactical suggestions like which side of the course is favored. Typically some of the most successful and famous weather routers have been French. However, in The Race, Club Med's router is Australian Roger Badham and the navigator Mike Quilter is a New Zealander.
French flair is French crazy.
Router Pierre Lansier is on a recent hot streak. While Armor Lux set a record in the Northern Hemisphere, Innovation Explorer set the 24-hour sailing record in the Southern Hemisphere. Both had Lansier as their router. This next term is also from the Sail Muskegon glossary. I chose this term because it is just such a pleasing and obscure term.