107b is now in Shannon Harbour, attending the Shannon Harbour Rally. Her 1st event since we had some work done on her in Portumna. Many thanks to all those involved and a job well done too. Don’t know there the next venue is, but keep watching here and we will let you know as soon as possible.
Thanks to all concerned.
I have put a Google Earth (*.kml) file of the 107b trip from Shannon Harbour to Portumna.
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107b is now in Portumna for her fit out, and well she is looking too. The trip on Sunday with 7 crew onboard was a great success, and on the the inside of the hull was painted.
Photos & Video to follow.
After a long hard winter weather wise, 107b is on the move for 2010. We departed the ex-Celtic hire base just outside Tullamore, and a succesful winter it was too with nothing touched on the barge. We departed today and are now at Tullamore. We will be departing Tullamore on Monday about 11am, and we are heading for Portumna, we will also be on the move on Tuesday, and hope to be in Shannon Harbour on Tuesday. As ususl we will be posting photos and videos of the trip. Don’t forget to keep an eye on our location map.
107B has now departed Naas and is on her way to Portumna for a bit of a fit out. We left Lowtown at 9:15am this morning and what a lovely day it is. Photos of todays trip are available HERE 
On Wednesday 21st October 107B left Hazelhatch and headed off for Sallins and Naas. It was a good trip with no canal issues to report, infact the canal was the perfect canal, and some of you may remember that we were towed through the same sections of canal earlier in the year on the way to Tullamore. We arrived at Leinster Mills (2nd Lock Naas) at about 6pm, where we stayed for the night. On Thursday 22nd October we headed up to Naas along with some other boats and barges. Today Saturday (24th Otcober 2009) at 2pm the HBA fleet of barges in moving into Naas Harbour, don’t forget to come and join in the fun for the weekend.
107B as you know is in Hazelhatch, we will be departing Hazelhatch on Wednesday 21st October and heading for Sallins, and hopefully as far as Lock 2 Naas Branch. Where we will wait till Saturday and then move up to Naas with the rest of the barges going to Naas for the weekend 24th – 26th October. For more information on the event see IWAI Kildare Branch. We hope to post coverage of the event as it happend and the trip from Hazelhatch to Naas. We will be departing Naas on Monday 26th October, and heading for Robertstown.
107B has now departed Dublin City, and is heading back towards Hazelhatch, where she will lay over for a short time, and then travel to Naas for the IWAI Kildare Branch and HBA canal festival. The dates for this event are 23rd-26th October. We followed 45M out of the city which is being used in for the 2010 Three Men in a Boat BBC2 TV series. 107B is now in Hazelhatch awaiting to go to Naas for the 24th – 26th October.
For those following 107B and the Grand Crew whiskey trip, the barge is now at Portobello with the whiskey casks safely delivered. Yesterday 06th October, 2009 we had a little ceromony with the Dublin City Lord Mayor Emer Costello and some IWAI members. See the video below.
We have at last revamped our website and we hope you enjoy it. We will be able to provide you with more content, video and audio posts.
To keep you up to date with the “Grand Crew” trip, we are now able to confirm that 107b & 45m will be in Dublin at Portobello on Tuesday 6th October, where there will be a small ceremony to hand over the cargo of whiskey casks. This will take place about 5pm. 107B will then depart Dublin later that week (possibly Thursday morning) and head for Naas for the October weekend. If you are in Dublin on Tuesday evening why not join us.
107b Team
