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Ocean Race: Paul Meilhat challenges the planet with a crew

2023-01-13T16:10:08.100Z


The skipper of the “Biotherm” monohull is setting off this Sunday for The Ocean Race, the mythical round the world race with stopovers.


A monument, a journey and a six-month marathon.

It's all this that five crews and their boat are tackling this Sunday from Alicante in Spain (4 p.m., live on Eurosport).

Thirty thousand miles and seven stages make up the crewed round the world with stopovers, contested by the greatest sailors on the planet since its creation in 1973, long known as the Whitbread and today simply called The Ocean Race.

With a great novelty: the appearance on the race of the Imoca monohulls (18.28 m long), the famous boats of the Vendée Globe.

"There are only five of us this year, it's not huge, but I won't be surprised if there are 15-20 boats in the next edition, it's so great to sail with a crew",

confides in

Figaro

, Paul Meilhat, the chief skipper of the monohull

Biotherm

, delighted to be able to complete the Route du rhum 2022 (6th after his victory in 2018), Ocean Race 2023 then Vendée Globe 2024.

Read alsoThe Orient-Express Silenseas, the largest sailboat in the world will be French!

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Source: lefigaro

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