Former SAS trooper spends £100k on Moby Dick boat because... 'why not?'

A former SAS soldier is planning to cross the Atlantic in a giant whale-shaped boat named Moby.

Seasoned adventurer Tom McClean, 73, has spent £100,000 and two decades getting the vessel ready for the 3,500 mile voyage.

ITV News Scotland Correspondent Peter Smith reports:

Moby - named after the whale in author Herman Melville's classic Moby-Dick novel - has been built on a beach on Loch Nevis in Scotland by Mr McClean who plans to sail the Atlantic alone.

He told ITV News: "Why? Why not, I would say. I'm the first man to row the North Atlantic alone and I've sailed it and I've crossed it in a bottle boat.

"You can go in many shapes and I thought, well, why not a whale?"

Mr McClean plans to sail from London to New York in stages next year.