I first saw Lachie as a 10-year-old from the mini-bus when collecting his daughter from his house when we went to the play scheme back in 1998. But he is no stranger, and he was more than a father and a model boat builder.
Little did I know at the time that he is actually an athlete who participated the 1970 Edinburgh Commonwealth Games who completed 1st in the race and won a very large teddy bear.
10 years later, I met him again at the Glasgow Model Boat Club and I saw him there on Sundays for a good few years.
I was very lucky to have met him and an athlete could be any of us, and this just happened to be Lachie Stewart.
He was a very talented man and there will never be another man like him. He may rest in peace.
Alistair Cowell
23/06/2025