Originally from Bécon-les-Granits, Jean-Marie Patier chose the historic Cigare Rouge, a sailing boat with five laps around the world, for its first Route du rum.

He swapped his black head-boarding suits at Bécon-les-Granits and his studies of political science for a pair of dockside and an old yellow wax. In a few days, Jean-Marie Patier sets sail for Guadeloupe. "Maybe I'm unconscious or careless," looses the amateur sailor

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