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Nancy Blackett was featured in Saturday's Financial Times, in an article by journalist, author and sailor Richard Donkin, who recently experienced the joys of sailing her on the River Orwell, in the company of skippers John Smith and Ed Williams. Click here to read the full article. Nancy Blackett spent a large part of last weekend aground after inadvertently encountering a mudbank in the River Alde, near Iken. She was on her way to Snape Maltings, and missed a channel withy close to Iken church at around 1245 on Saturday. Skipper Richard Wainwright remained aboard, having sent the rest [...] The most dramatic episode in Nancy Blackett's Round the Island adventure actually occurred during the preceding night, when our mooring – on a buoy out in the Cowes Roads – started to drag. The wind had got up, it was raining hard (in contrast to the weather on both the day before [...] Fresh from her circumnavigation of the Isle of Wight in the Round the Island Race, the Nancy Blackett is making good progress on her journey back to the East Coast. Following a changeover day on Sunday at Hamble, Nancy Blackett and her crew left there at 9.45AM on Monday, arriving at Brighton [...] Nancy Blackett completed the 2010 J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race earlier today in a time of 12:24:37, crossing the finishing line at Cowes, Isle of Wight at 17:34:37. Entered in the Traditional Gaffers class, the Nancy Blackett came 8th out of nine finishers and twelve entrants. The oldest boat [...] Nancy completed race at 17.34 in time of 12 hrs 25 mins. Chairman of NBT narrowly failed to impale crew member with dividers! Latest news. Off Bembridge. Weather has turned cold. Sea lumpy. Still we're in the final stage. SE of Dunnose Head going well. Two thirds of way around. |
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