Last weekend the Walton and Frinton Yacht Club hosted the Old Gaffers Association’s Swallows and Amazons weekend in the Walton Backwaters – Arthur Ransome’s ‘Secret Water’, writes Matt Plummer. It was the association’s nineteenth consecutive visit and twenty-four boats signed on for the main race on Saturday, which involved circumnavigating both Horsey Island and Honeypot Island. The […]

Pin Mill is featured in a limited print which is to be auctioned at the AGM of the Nancy Blackett Trust at the end of this month – as a special fundraising event for the charity. As part of the late Peter Aitchison’s bequest to the Nancy Blackett Trust, this limited edition print of aviation […]

Sophie Neville. President of the Arthur Ransome Society, was invited to talk about making the BBC TV classic serial ‘Coot Club’ and ‘The Big Six’ at the Norfolk Broads Yacht Club to help celebrate their 80th Anniversary over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend, and continues her account below… Titmouse, the 1930’s dinghy owned by Hunter’s Yard, […]