 The competitors sailed from November 2 to November 7 on Grand Surprise class sailboats.The SYWoC is an annual sailing competition organized by students at the École Polytechnique, a French engineering school, seeing the world's best student sailing teams confront each other in a week-long series of races.Every year, the SYWoC takes place around All Saints' Day and gather about 200 students in a large French harbour.