Nancy Blackett

Nancy Blackett for London’s Thames Festival

The first-ever Classic Rally on the Thames is taking place in St Katharine’s Dock, London, as part of this year’s Thames Festival, and Nancy Blackett is planning to be there.   The Rally is on …

"We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea" is Now on CD

Arthur Ransome’s “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea” is now available as a talking book on CD, read by renowned actor and broadcaster Gabriel Woolf. “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea” is Arthur …

Nancy is Ready for the Summer

The Nancy Blackett is relaunched, rerigged, fitted-out and back on her pontoon at Woolverstone, ready for a summer of sailing. A select working party braved the wind and intermittent rain on Saturday to undertake the …

Antifouling All Done!

Nancy’s antifouling was carried out over the weekend by a small but enthusiastic working party of NBT members. The weather – Nancy was outdoors this year – was fine, sunny and a bit breezy and …

Sail into Summer Aboard Nancy Blackett

The Nancy Blackett returns to the water at the end of March, so once again there will be many new opportunities to sail aboard her this year. There is plenty of scope for both newcomers …

An Action-Packed Season Ahead

This year’s programme of events starts with the traditional anti-fouling weekend at Robertson’s yard, Woodbridge, from Saturday 21st March. The following weekend is for fitting out at Tide Mill Marina, Woodbridge, and finally sailing Nancy …

Winter Programme for Nancy

Nancy came out of the water on Monday October 20th at Robertson’s, Woodbridge, after a very long and successful season. Over 20 members helped with the laying-up party on Saturday 18th during the day at …

Two crew places available on Nancy

Last chance for a sail on Nancy this year! Two crew places available. Join at Woolverstone Thursday 16th October (and possibly sail part of the way that day) and sail to Woodbridge on the 17th, …

Philip Pullman Chooses We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea

Bestselling children’s author Philip Pullman has included Arthur Ransome’s “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea” amongst his 40 favourite books, a list compiled at the invitation of booksellers Waterstones for their Writer’s Table promotion. …

Sailing Nancy Newsletter

All members of the Trust who are on the Sailing Nancy newsletter list should now have received the latest edition by post. The headline news is a new sailing secretary, details for John Benford below, …

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