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Scotland Magazine author Maxwell MacLeodWacky racesSail Caledonia is funsailing with a difference. Maxwell MacLeod joined the other motley crews for a few days of mindless hedonism It’s early on a rainy Sunday morning in the Scottish Highlands and more than 50 shouting yachtsmen are gathered around (and indeed in) Neptune’s staircase, the remarkable series of canal locks that lies near Fort William. The subject of the yelling sailors’ obsessive shouting is their 16 wee immacu... Scottish Activities from Issue 23 published on 14/10/2005 One man and his boatThe release of a Ewan MacGregor film following the fortunes of a dysfunctional man travelling onthe canal between Edinburgh and Glasgow has prompted us to send our Ewan MacGregorlookalike, Maxwell MacLeod, on the same journey. This is his story So, picture it if you will... It's mid-August, and you are sitting beside the Edinburgh to Glasgow canal, on the first leg, the 31 mile long Union canal. The sun beats down like a hammer, and many Scots are responding by, well, getting hammered. And there's laughing children pointing at a strange a... Scottish Journeys from Issue 17 published on 29/11/2004 On the crest of a waveMAXWELL MACLEOD SHARES THE SECOND INSTALMENT OF HIS ADVENTURE ON THE CALEDONIAN CANAL It’s great finally to get in the sailing record books. Yep, I made it. Single-handed across Scotland in winter in a 21-foot sailing yacht. Probably the last yacht of the 2002 season to make the 60-mile loch and canal run from Fort William to Inverness. Ellen MacArthur shift over. Wha’s yer Sir Franc... Outdoor Scotland from Issue 8 published on 17/5/2003 Easy as she goesIF YOU WANT TO SEE SCOTLAND PROPERLY, THEN WHY NOT SAIL ITS CANALS? It was still dark night when I untied the ropes and pushed her out onto the southern end of the freezing-cold Caledonian Canal at Banavie. I suppose it must have been about 7am. Still dark, but only just. Certainly, the darkness had a hint of grey in it as we (that’s ‘Coinbra’, my yacht, and I) buz... Outdoor Scotland from Issue 7 published on 7/3/2003 |  | ||||||||||||
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