AN AIR traffic controller attempting to halve the solo sailing dinghy record from Land’s End to John O’Groats was towed into Campbeltown by the Wee Toon lifeboat.
Ken Fowler, 51, from Muddiford near Bournemouth, has just 34 days of his annual leave to break the record which currently stands at 64 days.
Last Thursday as he passed Ailsa Craig, in thick fog, the wind died and his RS Aero dinghy, the size of two bath tubs and the weight of a labrador dog, was becalmed.