French duo stripped of Sydney-Hobart race overall win
New Caledonia-based duo Michel Quintin and Yann Rigal claimed victory for BNC in the overall Tattersall Cup, determined by a complicated handicap formula which allows smaller boats to compete with bigger and faster rivals.
But a race panel later added more than one hour to their finishing time after upholding a complaint by second-placed Min River over an incorrectly secured sail.
"Not in my wildest dreams did I think this would come true for me," said Min River co-skipper Jiang Lin after learning...