Nancy Blackett left Hythe Marina at 14.00 en route to Cowes to prepare for the Round the Island Race. Delayed with sorting out the Yankee and losing the jib halyard up the mast! Problem resolved by going into the lock at low water! – Bob Hull
Nancy Blackett is getting ready today in preparation for this year's J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race. The race will be started by Dame Ellen MacArthur, patron of the Nancy Blackett Trust. Participating vessels will depart from Cowes, Isle of Wight, in eleven different groups at ten-minute intervals between 5AM and 6:40AM tomorrow […]
A new photo album and slideshow from last week's visits to Gosport and Beaulieu are now available.
Following Saturday's AGM, skipper Bryan Bonser took a well-deserved morning off on Sunday, while John Benford and Frank Martin took some more members for a short sail into Southampton Water and back. In the afternoon, Bryan's son and Frank's daughter (who are married – to each other), accompanied by their grandsons went for their own […]
An album and slideshow of pictures taken last Saturday of Nancy Blackett and Hamble is now available.
On Wednesday, Nancy Blackett and her now small crew departed from Gosport and set sail for Buckler's Hard, the former ship-building centre on the Beaulieu River, in the heart of the New Forest, spending the night there. Yesterday, she motored all the way back across the Solent to Hamble in the teeth of a north-easterly […]
Nancy Blackett has featured in two articles this week: a preview of the forthcoming Round the Island Race – "Britain's favourite yacht race is just around the corner" (Afloat) an exploration of the Walton Backwaters, the setting for "Secret Water" – "Walton Backwaters: Going with the flow in Essex" (Telegraph)
Nancy Blackett and her crew arrived in Hamble at tea-time yesterday, accompanied by a some light rain, following a good sail across the Solent. Today she headed west again, this time berthing at the Royal Clarence Marina in Gosport. Plans for tomorrow include a voyage up the Beaulieu River.
Photos and a slideshow from Nancy Blackett's weekend at YOGAFF are now available in the YOGAFF 2010 Album.
Nancy Blackett spent last weekend at Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight for the annual Yarmouth Old Gaffers Festival (YOGAFF), having sailed and motored there from Hamble on the Thursday. Bob Hull (skipper), Jenny Wedick (mate) and Barry Johnson were joined in Yarmouth by Jan Lingley. During Friday and Saturday Nancy welcomed more than 100 […]
Nancy Blackett and her crew have been kept fairly busy in the Solent during the past week. NBT member Rex Wade celebrated his birthday last Friday with a special trip across to the Folly Inn and back, and had a double treat with not one but two birthday cakes. Although there was beastly weather at […]
Over the past few days, following the previous change of crew, the Nancy Blackett left the Hamble and went across the Solent to the River Beaulieu, mooring on a buoy for the night, before moving on to Yarmouth for the next night, with a return to Newtown Creek, and then Cowes (mysteriously attracted to the […]
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