www.boat-zone.com The Caledonian Canal is Scotland’s great short cut – 21 miles of canal linking with 38 miles of lochs to provide a route from East Scotland and the North Sea through to West Scotland and the Irish Sea. It’s a route John and Fionn had contemplated should rough weather prevent them negotiating the notoriously difficult conditions around the north coast. But this is merely a detour – and provides unexpected vistas of snowy peaks and a very different landscape. But meanwhile the weather deteriorates and Shark Bay is stranded at Inverness. Sponsored by leading boat insurance specialists Haven Knox-Johnston (www.boatinsure.co.uk), The Great Motorboat Tour is the weekly video diaries of two men in a boat and their attempt to circumnavigate the British Isles. Film-maker John Boyle and cameraman Fionn Crow Howieson set off from Falmouth in their Sealine S34, called Shark Bay, keeping a regular video diary which provides compelling viewing of their great adventure as well as unique views and insight into our wonderful coastline. Their route takes them eastwards along the south coast, around southeast England, across the Thames estuary and then along the full length of the east coast to Scotland and beyond, past Cape Wrath taking in the wildest and most remote shores of our islands. Shark Bay then turns south following Scotland’s beautiful west coast before heading westwards to reach Northern Ireland. Their adventure takes them right around Ireland along the west …
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