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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.

 

 107B @ Portobello: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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

Well it has been a while since we did our last post, but 107b has been busy, we have attended the Fleadh in Tullamore, and we are now back in Ballycommon at the junction of the Grand Canal and the dry Kilbeggan branch.  The reason we are here is because we have taken delivery of two whiskey casks, which we are transporting to Dublin the first time in 50+ years.  See the video below.

107b is now in Hazelhatch.  Three days were spent bringing her from Ballycommon in Co. Offaly to Hazelhatch in Co. Kildare.  The trip was broken into three stages.  1)  Ballycommon to Edenderry, 2) Edenderry to Sallins, 3) Sallins to Hazelhatch.  The Sallins to Hazelhatch trip was done on 8th April, 2009 and took 5hrs 30mins approx, and 3 locks.  The video Ballycommon to Edenderry is also posted below

Watch the video below.  Sallins to Hazelhatch.

The 2009 season for 107b is now on the way and our first trip is from Ballycommon on the Grand Canal in Co. Offaly to Hazelhatch in Co. Dublin to have some work done on the barge.  We are getting a rolling section of roof put on the barge so that we can lift in and out large displays, namely the Bollinder engine which we hope to display.

So starting on Sunday 29th March, 2009 leaving Ballycommon at 9am and heading for Hazelhatch.

We will be posting reports here during the day and video on our website.  So some and join us on our trip

107b Crew

Adverse weather conditions saw the closure of the Grand Canal to navigation in the Edenderry, Tullamore and Shannon Harbour areas for the first time in living memory.  All boat movements were stopped.  The canal is now back open.

Listen to the podcast below to find out more.

 

 Fleadh Tullamore 2008 1 [8:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This year 2008 sees the Fleadh returning to Tullamore for the second year in a row, naturally 107b and its crew will be attending, and we will be bringing you news, views and coverage of the IWAI Offaly Branch “Float to the Fleadh 2008″.  The Fleadh is from 17th-25th August, 2008.

After last years success we hope to gather more interviews and comments and bring them to you here as they happen, so keep watching and listening.  107b will be open to the public during the Fleadh week.

Listen to our 1st podcast of Fleadh 2008

For those of you following 107b, we departed Tullamore harbour today at about 3pm, heading for Naas at Easter.  All went well with no problems with the boat.  We are glad to report the canal is in good condition, and we had the assistance of lock keepers.  We will be on the move tomorrow (Sunday 24/02/08) heading for Ballycommon.  We will report back tomorrows progress.

Niall G

107b will hopefully depart Tullamore harbour on Sunday (24/02/08) morning on its way to take part in the IWAI Kildare branch rally in Naas at the easter weekend.