This summer Nancy Blackett went on an epic eight-week sailing adventure in Holland, following her commemorative departure in a 40-boat flotilla from the Royal Harwich Yacht Club.

Her final two weeks in Holland started out benignly enough, but the voyage back to England concluded in a way that no-one could have foreseen…

• Nancy Blackett’s penultimate Dutch week so far…
• Nancy Blackett’s dispatch from Yerseke
• The Magic of Sailing Nancy Blackett
• Nancy Blackett starts her final week in Holland
• Dispatches from Goes
• Nancy Blackett Returns… To Lowestoft
• Lowestoft Lifeboat called in after engine failure on historic yacht favoured by Swallows and Amazons author Arthur Ransome

View our photo album here on Flickr of the final two weeks of Nancy Blackett’s Dutch Adventure.