Solo rower's Pacific bid ended by broken rudder

A British man who was forced to abandon his attempt to row across the Pacific after his boat’s rudder broke was picked up by Coastguards 400 miles off Japan’s northern coast today.

Mick Dawson, 39, from Boston, Lincolnshire, was said to be “very upbeat” after he was collected by a patrol boat off the coast of Miyagi prefecture at about 8pm BST yesterday.