The Bermudian sailor presumed lost at sea has been found safe and well on the island of Anguilla.

George Lambert's family contacted the Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre yesterday to report his arrival in Anguilla after more than three weeks without word of his fate.

Mr. Lambert had last been seen on his 26 ft yacht Endurance II on May 4 by a merchant ship which stopped to assist him with a faulty battery about 570 miles south-east of Bermuda, halfway to the Caribbean.

His family then raised the alarm when he failed to arrive in St Vincent and the Grenadines, where he was headed to see his wife Brenda Adams.

Bermuda Maritime Operations, the US Coast Guard and Coast Guard services in the Caribbean worked together in an extensive search operation as far north as New York and as far south as Puerto Rico.

However, the search was called off last week when even the deployment of two C-130 Hercules aircraft by the US Air Force failed to turn up any evidence of Mr. Lambert or his yacht.

Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre yesterday revealed that Mr. Lambert had suffered engine failure, but managed to reach Anguilla under sail, arriving there over the weekend. Mr. Lambert was rescued at sea in December 2003 and possibly in 1997.