Paul Meilhat
Paul Meilhat is a French sailor and navigator. He was a high level 49er dinghy sailor with Olympic aspirations before moving into offshore sailing. From 2015 to the end of 2018 he was skipper of the IMOCA 60 - SMA and competed in the Vendée Globe.
Rankings
2019:- 7th - Transat Jaque Vabre on Initiatives cœur with Sam Davies
- 7th - Défi Azimut
- 5th - Rolex Fastnet Race
- winner of the Route du Rhum - Destination Guadeloupe in the IMOCA category on SMA in 12 days, 11 hours, 23 minutes and 18 seconds; 6th overall
- winner of the Monaco Globes series, doubles with Gwénolé Gahinet
- winner of the Bermuda 1000 Race - Douarnenez Cascais
- winner of the Rolex Fastnet Race, doubles with Gwénolé Gahinet on IMOCA SMA
- 2nd in the Transat Jacques Vabre, doubles with Gwénolé Gahinet on IMOCA SMA
- RET for the 2016-2017 Vendée Globe with keel issues
- 4th in the Transat New York-Vendée.
- 4th in The Transat
- winner of the SNSM record, doubles with Michel Desjoyeaux, in 37 hours, 4 minutes and 23 seconds
- 1st - Transat AG2R with Gwénolé Gahinet on "Safran Guy Cotten"
- 4th - Transat AG2R with Fabien Delahaye on "Macif"
- 31st - ISAF Sailing World Championships Cascais, POR
- 34th - 49er World Championship - Aix Les Bains, FRA
- 29th - 49er World Championship, Moscow, RUS
- 68th - 49er World Championship, Athens, GRE