With Christmas upon us in just a few weeks’ time, here’s our handy guide to the Nancy Blackett Shop’s special Christmas offers. This year you can help celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Nancy Blackett Trust with our Limited Edition 25th Anniversary Teatowel & Tote Bag Offer (below), the designs of which are based in the […]
Nancy Blackett is now ashore for the winter, following a long and busy autumn afloat, making the most of the unseasonably mild weather. She was collected last week from her berth at Woolverstone Marina on the spring tide and brought just a mile downriver to Pin Mill by Gus Curtis – to be lifted out […]
Grab a chance and don’t be sorry for a might-have-been! Many of our supporters have already started buying their Christmas gifts from us, so to help you plan ahead for your own shopping, here’s our handy guide to our last dates for ordering your Christmas gifts from the Nancy Blackett Shop… Please note that our […]
Arthur Ransome’s Selina King has returned to the Orwell and Harry King’s at Pin Mill, the yard that she was built in 84 years ago, following a restoration which began in Bermuda and continued in Itchenor five years ago, writes Peter Willis… She was delivered by low-loader to Fox’s yard on the evening of Thursday […]
Voyage North, the seventh and final book in Julia Jones’s Ransome-inspired Strong Winds series is out now. Donny finds himself on the superyacht of a Russian oligarch, heading towards the Arctic Circle with a canister of toxic waste. But will this bring him closer to answers to the questions that have troubled him ever since […]
Swallow, the iconic dinghy that starred in the original film of Swallows and Amazons is currently on display at the Southampton International Boat Show, greeting families as they arrive, while Sophie Neville, who played Titty Walker in the film, has been giving talks on filming afloat and how it was made on location in the […]
Yesterday was a good day for Nancy Blackett at the St Katharine Dock Classic Boat Show in London, writes Bob Hull. It got off to a slow start after the Nancy Blackett crew went around to some other boats informing them they were incorrectly dressed in light of the guidance on Accession Day that flags […]
Nancy Blackett has made it to London in plenty of time for this weekend’s Classic Boat Festival at St Katharine Dock. She can be visited on Saturday and Sunday during festival hours. Further details of the festival are here. Nancy Blackett and crew by Tower Bridge earlier this morning. Photo: Bob Hull.
The fourth day of Nancy Blackett’s voyage to St Katharine Dock in London saw an early start, leaving Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey at 6am yesterday after a night of heavy rain, and heading up the River Thames while avoiding further showers. Nancy Blackett passed the busy Thames Gateway container terminal and headed to […]
On the third day of her first cruise since her relaunch, Nancy Blackett spent a day on the River Medway before continuing to next weekend’s Classic Boat Show at St Katharine Docks, London. Having survived an overnight thunderstorm with heavy rain, Nancy Blackett’s crew saw some ropemaking at Chatham Historic Dockyard yesterday, before departing downriver back to […]
On the second day of her first cruise since her relaunch, Nancy Blackett has reached the River Medway while en route to next weekend’s Classic Boat Show at St Katharine Docks, London. Nancy Blackett left Brightlingsea yesterday morning to cross the Thames Estuary, which was flat calm, even glassy at one stage. There were very few other boats […]
In her first cruise since her relaunch, Nancy Blackett is en route to next weekend’s Classic Boat Show at St Katharine Docks, London. After some repairs to a diesel leak in new engine on Saturday afternoon and a visit from our esteemed President, Peter Willis, she left Woolverstone yesterday, on a glorious hot sunny morning, […]
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