Blair Kinghorn's Lions tour delayed amid Toulouse final and Pacific rowers
When it comes to taking the long way round to Australia, however, Kinghorn has nothing on a trio of fellow Edinburgh Academy alumni who are due to make landfall in time for the third Test in Sydney after 120 days spent rowing some 9,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean.
The Maclean brothers — Lachlan, Ewan and Jamie — set off in April in a 28-foot carbon fibre boat, Rose Emily, named after their late sister, in a bid to raise £1m for clean water projects in Madagascar.
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