Missing Yacht: US Coast Guard Resumes Search

The search for four British sailors missing in the Atlantic has resumed after it was called off on Sunday.

Ministers said the US Coast Guard had agreed to continue searching after a request from the UK government.

Cheeki Rafiki, the 40ft racing yacht, was sailing from a regatta in Antigua back to the UK when it got into difficulties. Contact with the men was lost on Friday.

Members of the sailors’ families said they were “over the moon” at the news.

They met with Foreign Office Minister Hugh Robertson before leaving to go to the US Embassy to meet the homeland attaché.

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