An urgent search has been launched for a missing yacht captain taking part in a solo challenge after contact was lost over a week ago.
Coastguard crews are desperately looking for Duncan Lougee, who left Plymouth on The Minke - a 26ft Varne folkboat - at midday on June 18 and was expected to arrive in Baltimore, Ireland, on June 22.
There has been no communication from the skipper since his departure, and six days after the vessel was due at her destination there has been no sign of it.
