Surfer reunited with board after it drifts 400 miles from Runswick Bay, near Whitby, to Shetland

Stephanie Riise and Jake Anderson find Michael Brogan's surfboard washed up on the beach in Shetland - 400 miles from its home!

A surfboard which was lost in the sea off the coast of Runswick Bay before drifting hundreds of miles north to Shetland has been reunited with its thankful owner.

A surprised Stephanie Riise and her partner Jake Anderson came across the nine foot Walden surfboard washed up on a beach in Skeld in late December.

Thanks to the power of Facebook, the owner of the surfboard - Lee Brogan, who lives near Runswick Bay - was tracked down.

After his leash snapped, he lost the board when out surfing off the seaside village around five weeks before it was discovered in Shetland.

Delighted surfer Michael Brogan has been reunited with his surfboard.

Some ‘as the crow flies’ calculations suggest the surfboard may have travelled around 400 miles before landing ashore in Shetland.

He had posted about the lost surfboard on Facebook on the off chance someone might find it, and it was through this that he was traced.

But he never expected it to have drifted all the way up to Shetland.

After being contacted, Lee sent images of himself with the surfboard to prove his identity, and the unusual beach discovery was later dispatched south.

He was reunited with his surfboard earlier this week.