30 Dec 2010

Wild Oats XI confirmed line honours winner

8:16 am on 30 December 2010

Wild Oats XI has been confirmed as line honours winner of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race after a protest was dismissed.

An international jury met today in Hobart and dismissed the protest lodged by the race committee.

The race comittee had alleged Wild Oats XI broke race rules by failing to have an operational radio as it entered Bass Strait.