Four years have passed since his victory in the Route du rhum, in the Imoca category.
A strange victory, obtained on the wire, after the blunder of Alex Thomson, who, then in the lead about fifty miles from the finish, had run aground on a cliff and had received a penalty.
A painful success, too, since for Paul Meilhat it was the end of a four-year relationship with SMA, the partner that had enabled him to participate in the Vendée Globe in 2012.
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