A sailor who was trapped by ice during an attempt to sail solo through the Northwest Passage says he will try again to finish the voyage.

Simon Layton, a 32-year-old skipper from Skellingthorpe in Lincolnshire, left Falmouth nine weeks ago following the route of British explorer Sir John Franklin.

But he abandoned the attempt to become the first person to make the journey alone when his boat got trapped in an ice pack.

"It was still nine-tenths covered with ice so I couldn't get through, " Mr Layton told BBC Radio Lincolnshire after arriving home.

Mr Layton is determined to complete the voyage

"The ice pack coincided with a couple of gales that blew my boat apart."

Mr Layton said he intends to try to make the 7,000-mile journey again.

His mother, Ruth Layton, said she was sick with worry during the trip.

She said: "I was ill with it all. People asked me if I was proud of him, but I said: 'I will screw his neck if I get my hands on him.'"

Mr Layton says he will return to Sisimiut in Greenland, which is 60 miles north of the Arctic Circle, to retrieve his boat and continue his voyage next April.

Sir John Franklin spent 30 years exploring the Arctic and the Northwest Passage, but died trying to make the east-to-west crossing in 1847.