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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Nancy Blackett has at last returned to active service after an enforced four-month lay-up. She sank at her moorings immediately after her seasonal relaunch at the end of April, leading to a long period of …
The Nancy Blackett Trust’s contribution to the Felixstowe Book Festival on Saturday June 25th was part of a highly entertaining and successful day-long series of events under the title of Suffolk and the Sea. The …
Suffolk author and sailor Julia Jones looks forward to the upcoming You Too Can Go To Sea event on 25th June at the Two Sisters Arts Centre in Trimley St. Mary, Suffolk – led by …
It was exactly 25 years ago today – June 9th 1997 – that the newly-formed Nancy Blackett Trust took over ownership of the Nancy Blackett, the yacht that inspired Arthur Ransome’s classic children’s novel We …
The mast at the former site of naval training establishment HMS Ganges at Shotley, Suffolk, which briefly features, anonymously, in We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea, is to be restored as part of a …
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