With The Ocean Race Europe drawing to a close this weekend, we look back on a very different race finish in 2023, where the teams competing in the final leg of The Ocean Race drifted into Genoa. This year, Paul Meilhat and his team at Biotherm will be looking at a very different outcome.
Lydia Mullan is the editor-in-chief of SAIL magazine and Multihull Power and Sail. In her eight years with SAIL, she has published over 450 articles, including marine journalism’s best adventure essay in both 2023 and 2024, as recognized by Boating Writers International. She was also the race commentator for the 2025 Transpac and 2025 Marblehead-Halifax, a 2024 Magenta Project graduate, and the media manager for Cole Brauer’s viral circumnavigation.
