Chris Harnan and I have penned in a cruise departing from my berth at the James Watt Dock Marina in Greenock, on the weekend 12/13 July. We will be sailing Verlesque, a Verl 900, not a Mac. Our plans will be entirely weather dependent but, after my last chat with Chris, the No 1 plan favours going direct to the Crinan Canal, through it and then an exploration of the islands north, perhaps as far as Mull - and back the same way. But, a return license to transit the canal, is approx £325 for a Mac - if my calculations are correct. Alternatively, a passage south to round the Mull of Kintyre and then head north for a return through the Crinan, is also an option. Option 3 is to meander within the Firth of Clyde and perhaps visit some of those areas often overlooked, like, in no particular order, the top of Loch Fyne, Loch Long, Girvan, Campbelltown, Kip and Glasgow itself. Chis and I have pencilled in 9/10 days. If anyone is interested in joining in, please express your interest here and we can start a discussion. Largs is probably the best place to launch a Mac and to start the cruise. I know that, after the last Big Mac in Scotland, Roly, Ros, Jonathan and Miriam made the trip through the Crinan and had some interesting tales to tell afterwards. Perhaps it's a rite of passage that we all have to undertake at some stage in our lives.