To celebrate a multiple anniversary, Arthur Ransome’s Nancy Blackett retraced his (and his fictional Goblin’s) wake across the North Sea to Flushing – and stayed to explore the local waterways, as told in this special article written by Peter Willis, President of the Nancy Blackett Trust, which was featured in the October/November 2017 edition of “Classic […]
This summer Nancy Blackett went on an epic eight-week sailing adventure in Holland, following her commemorative departure in a 40-boat flotilla from the Royal Harwich Yacht Club. Here are the stories of the 4th and 5th weeks from Peter Willis, Tony Clarke and Jon Millward: Signals from Zeeland Nancy Blackett sails the Riddle of the […]
In Peter Willis’ final report from his week onboard Nancy Blackett, he writes… We’re on the train back to Hook of Holland and John Millward and his crew are now aboard Nancy Blackett. Yesterday (Friday) we had a long day, getting up early to leave Zierikzee and catch the tide to the lock through to […]
Peter Willis sheds some light on the most recent adventures of Nancy Blackett and her crew… Following Wednesday’s cracking sail on the Oosterschelde, we enjoyed a convivial drink with fellow Brits John and Margaret from Levington, before repairing to Sint-Annaland marina’s excellent restaurant, where some of us enjoyed its oysters and a fantastic main course […]
Today we had our best sail of the week so far for the current Nancy Blackett crew, which we’ve dubbed the Riddle of the Sands passage, or possibly the Riddle of the Middle, writes Peter Willis. An early bridge departure out of Goes got us out into the Oosterschelde by 9:30am on a pleasingly overcast […]
For our mid-week round-up of the fourth week of Nancy Blackett’s Dutch adventure, we received the following missive from Peter Willis, President of the Nancy Blackett Trust: “It was too windy to sail on Sunday, so we hired bikes and cycled round Middelburg. On Monday there were light winds, so we had a gentle sail/motor along […]
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