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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.

Photos of Naas click here.

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.

Photos of Dublin & Three Men in a boat filming.

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.

 

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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