UPDATE: Search underway for missing boatie on Lake Wakatipu

Attributable to Senior Sergeant John Fookes, Area Prevention Manager, Southern District Police

The man missing from a cabin boat, Sundance 2, on Lake Wakatipu since Sunday 30 June has been named as Matthew Charles Duncan.

The married 46-year-old from Bluff, known as Matt is the owner of Painting Solutions and had been working in Queenstown.

Mr Duncan was the sole passenger aboard the cabin boat which set out onto the lake from the Earnslaw slipway by the Wakatipu Yacht Club around 9.30am.

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