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The NWAC has been closed due to flooding. Water has risen right to the staff house and the sheds, the decking area is foating on the waves washing in. Hopefully the water levels will start to drop and the damage will be minimal.
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Works Day
All hands are required on Deck at 10:00hrs 1 November to get the Lelievlets off the water and the rest of the boats stored for the Winter.
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Sailing Course Assessments 27-28 June 2009Sea Scout SIG members hard work over the last two months paid off with the completion of a week-end of revision and assessment. Saturday morning was calm but in the afternoon the wind picked up. Sunday the wind wa...
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Sea Scout Camp - Lough DanArklow Sea Scouts have kindly posted photo's from the South Eastern Provincial Sea Scout Camp we attended on the May B/H week-end Here....
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Over 120 Cub Scouts turned up at the NWAC for the Clare County Cub day on the water. The Cubs were split into 8 groups and rotated around 8 bases. They had boat trips across the lake, viking rowing, mud sliding, challenges. While the weather was very chan...
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Brian Boru Challenge - 33 scouts took on the Brian Boru Challenge last week in the NWAC. The challenge tests a scout both on the water and on land, hiking, bivvying, rowing, swimming, general boatmanship. It is tough, challenging and certainly something ...
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South Eastern Province Sea Scout Camp - The Mid-west Sea Scout SIG were invited to this camp and were represented by a small contingent of 3 Scouters and 5 Sea Scouts. The week-end started with a drive from Limerick through Kildare, a short stop at the ro...
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"National Brian Boru Challenge The National Water Activities Centre (NWAC) at Killaloe, Co. Clare are to run a National Brian Boru Challenge on the 8-10 May 2009. This challenge has run for a number of years in the centre and taking a leaf from Brian Boru...
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"An Rón" new vessel in NWAC fleet - In January the NWAC received an amazing piece of luck when a very kind benefactor decided to donate a yacht to the centre for the training of young people. On the 17 Feb 2009 the Camp Chief, Secretary and Quartermaste...
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Staff Powerboat Training - Well the week-end 20-22 Feb 2009 was unseasonably plesent in weather terms and the centre staff took the opportunity to get in Level 1 Introduction to Powerboating Training. The Lelievlets were launched into the water and Carl r...
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SIG visits L.E. Eithne - On 31 January 2009 the Sea Scout SIG took a visit to Galway Docks to meet up with the Naval Service flagship L.E. Eithne. The group paraded in Shannonbanks and were bussed to Galway to meet with the vessel at 8 bells on the fore...
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Mid-west Sea Scout SIG will meet in Shannonbanks hall at 09:30hrs on Saturday 31 January. Dress is Full Scout Uniform with Sea Scout Kneckerchief. New members welcome. ...
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Mid-west Sea Scout SIG launched - On a beautiful crisp December day (6th) the new Mid-west Sea Scout SIG launched in the NWAC in Killaloe. The Skipper Diarmuid Ó Briain, 1st Mate Philip Neville and a number of scouts and Venture Scouts from 25 Lim...
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Poll Who is this?Where was this?When was this?What was this taken at? Answers by e-mail to info@wateractivities.ie ...
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Four members of the Mid-West Sea Scout SIG participated in a Sea Scout forum held for Watch Leaders (WLs) in 5th Port (Dollymount) Sea Scouts "Crows Nest" on Bull Island on the week-end 28/29 Nov 2008. The forum brought together WLs from a num...
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Mid-west Sea Scout SIG have been given the design for the Kneckerchief and badge. The Kneckerchief is in Navy Blue with a double red border in Munster Red. The logo is that of the Sea Scout and Water Activities groups with the anchor in Munster Red.Under ...
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12/13 Sept 2008 - At last we had a week-end to follow up on the June bank holiday week-end training. I thought with the way the weather was playing with us that it would be next June by the time we got to do it again. Thanks to Lian Knight for a great cou...
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Laser Pico's. The NWAC would like to thank the National Youth Programme for providing funding for the two Laser Pico sailing Dinghy's recently added to the centre's fleet. It is important that the centre maintain a modern fleet of vessels so training deli...
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Mid-West Sea Scout SIG As part of a review of training at the NWAC in light of the acceptance of the new youth programme by National Council last month, we would like to outline a new training programme that will operate out of the Centre in Killaloe. It ...
