Nancy Blackett made her delivery voyage of her 90th Anniversary season yesterday (1st May), braving a cold May Day with rain and hail to sail from Woodbridge to Woolverstone, arriving at 7:30pm. Robin Sadler recorded her leaving the River Deben in the short video below:
Ahead of Nancy Blackett’s 90th Anniversary launch on Thursday, the Nancy Blackett Trust President, Peter Willis, spoke to BBC Radio Suffolk’s Lesley Dolphin about Arthur Ransome, Nancy Blackett and the anniversary. The 8-minute long interview was broadcast on Wednesday 28th April, and you can download it here or listen to it below…
Arthur Ransome’s favourite yacht, Nancy Blackett, was launched for her 90th Anniversary season earlier today at Robertsons Boatyard in Woodbridge, Suffolk. Claudia Myatt, Sue Coales and Peter Willis were on hand to record the occasion, and more stories of the event will follow… Music bunting and cake were pictured by Peter Willis. The cake was […]
Arthur Ransome has been honoured with an English Heritage London Blue Plaque for one of his first homes in the city. He lived at No. 1 Gunter Grove, Chelsea, in the front ground-floor room, between the spring of 1904 and October 1905. The English Heritage plaque was ‘unveiled’, virtually, this month (April), by means of […]
To mark the 90th birthday of Arthur Ransome’s yacht Nancy Blackett, her owner the Nancy Blackett Trust is offering free copies of Arthur Ransome’s We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea to local schools in Suffolk. The book, part of his Swallows and Amazons series, features the Goblin, identical to the Nancy Blackett, and is […]
Today the Nancy Blackett Trust’s Boat Manager, Neil Brooks, took more photos (below) of Nancy Blackett at Robertsons boatyard in Woodbridge, now on hard standing, having left the shed on Wednesday…
On Wednesday Nancy Blackett was taken out of the shed at Robertsons in Woodbridge, and put in the mobile slings. Boat manager Neil Brooks captured the moment in the brilliant early April sunshine, and later, so did our resident artist Claudia Myatt…
The good news is that, if the ‘Roadmap’ goes according to plan, Nancy Blackett will be able to provide her usual summer sailing… eventually. Meanwhile, though, pandemic-related restrictions on the winter work mean that Nancy’s relaunch date – and our celebrations of her 90th Birthday – are put back by a month from the usual […]
Woodbridge – Nancy Blackett’s winter home – has been named as the best place to live in the East of England by The Sunday Times in its newly-published Best Places to Live Guide – and the Shotley Peninsula, Nancy’s summer base, also features in the list. Woodbridge, described as “arty, creative and historic” contains several […]
Stephen Sykes, owner of Hill Top, looks at the legacy of the charcoal burners who lived and worked in Arthur Ransome’s own back yard… There are two farmhouses in the Lake District both called Hill Top and both once owned by famous children’s authors – and just a few miles apart. One, of course was […]
Sophie Neville, star of the original Swallows and Amazons film and author of The Making of Swallows and Amazons, reveals more memories and anecdotes that will appear in the 3rd edition of her e-book The Secrets of Filming Swallows and Amazons in time for the film’s 50th anniversary in 2024. Since the experts on BBC Antiques Roadshow have been taking […]
Work on Nancy Blackett’s winter refurbishment continues with both varnish and an experimental coating having been applied to different parts of her. Neil Brooks, volunteer boat manager and a Trustee of the Nancy Blackett Trust, took her fore-hatch cover home to give it a much-needed protective coating, using, as an experiment, Woodskin rather than conventional […]
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