Dutch 14-year-old Laura Dekker sets sail on Wednesday 4th August on the shakedown passage to Portugal for the start of her planned solo round-the-world voyage. A modern Nancy Blackett? Perhaps so – she certainly shows …
The most dramatic episode in Nancy Blackett’s Round the Island adventure actually occurred during the preceding night, when our mooring – on a buoy out in the Cowes Roads – started to drag. The wind …
The highlight of the Nancy Blackett Trust’s AGM last Saturday was the first amateur performance from the newly-published playscript of Arthur Ransome’s “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea.” The play, by dramatist Nick Wood, …
Nancy Blackett is registered to enter the Round the Island Race next Saturday (19th June), and we’re planning to use our participation to seek sponsorship for the good causes closest to our heart – helping …
Roger Wardale’s book on Arthur Ransome’s boats, originally published in 1991 as “Nancy Blackett – Under Sail with Arthur Ransome” and indirectly responsible for inspiring the Nancy Blackett Trust, has been out of print for …
Nancy Blackett is back in the water, beautifully repainted and varnished and ready for the new season. Her fitting-out was completed in record time on Saturday, despite one volunteer being stranded in Cairo and another …
The campaign to buy the film Swallow at the Turks boat auction has succeeded. After a tense 40-minute online bid battle (the auction site runs an ‘overbidding’ time extension scheme) the group supported by the …
The bid to buy Swallow, the dinghy used in the 1974 film of “Swallows and Amazons”, has gained the support of the Nancy Blackett Trust. The Trust is accepting donations to the bid, and because …
Swallow, the film boat, up for auction is in Turk’s Boatyard in Chatham. I visited it this week to view some of the boats in the forthcoming auction, and, of course, quickly located Swallow. What …
The sailing dinghy featured as Swallow in the 1974 film of “Swallows and Amazons” is currently attracting a lot of attention as one of the lots on offer in an online auction. A group of …
We've just added a new portfolio of photos showing Nancy Blackett and taken by crewmember Magnus Smith. Taken last summer at Nancy's home in Woolverstone Marina they include close-ups showing Nancy in vivid detail. Please …
Peter Willis 
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