See our photos from the day of Nancy Blackett’s Parade of Sail Flotilla, held to celebrate her departure for an 8-week voyage to the Dutch canals following the 20th Anniversary Nancy Blackett Trust AGM, on 4th June 2017. Click here to view our Flickr photo album.
The latest news from Nancy Blackett’s Dutch adventure: For today’s update skipper Richard Wainwright wrote: “Yesterday evening we dined royally with Wild Cat in the Veere yacht club. We have now just had a fantastic sail down from Veere nearly to the lock/ bridge from the Veerse Meer into the East Scheldt. Winds varying from 2 to […]
See our photos from the day of the Nancy Blackett Trust’s 20th Anniversary AGM, held on Saturday 3rd June 2017 at the Royal Harwich Yacht Club. Click here to view our Flickr photo album.
Nancy Blackett continued her Dutch adventures today, with the weather looking generally better for the rest of the week. The latest dispatches from skipper Richard Wainwright were received earlier this afternoon, and read: “Interesting meeting in Middelburg with a native of Scarborough who remembers seeing Nancy there about 30 years ago in very poor shape […]
The latest message that we received from skipper Richard Wainwright earlier today: “Nancy Blackett is now moored in the centre of Middelburg alongside Wildcat. We had a stormy passage down the canal with 40 knot gusting wind astern and 5 opening bridges to pass through. We found we could hold her almost stationary with reverse engine […]
Nancy Blackett safely completed her cross-Channel voyage earlier today (5th June), arriving at Vlissingen at 1PM BST after having sailed most of the way, in time for lunch with the Trust’s Chairman Roger Sturge. The dispatch received from skipper Richard Wainwright read: “We arrived safely in the outer harbour of Vlissingen at about 1pm BST […]
Two days of events beside and on the lovely River Orwell began with the Nancy Blackett Trust’s AGM and Summer Social on Saturday 3rd June, and continued on Sunday with a 40-boat flotilla marking Nancy Blackett’s commemorative departure for Holland, all held at the Royal Harwich Yacht Club. This is a special year for Arthur […]
This coming weekend, June 3rd and 4th, sees the Nancy Blackett Trust’s AGM and Summer Social on the Saturday, and the flotilla send -off for Nancy Blackett’s commemorative trip to Holland on the Sunday. For the Saturday Summer Social, meal bookings are now closed, but members and guests are still welcome at the afternoon talks, […]
Following last weekend’s hugely anticipated and popular Arthur Ransome Pin Mill Jamboree, here are some selected comments and photos of the event from the Nancy Blackett Trust’s social media communities. You can also read Sophie Neville’s updated story of the day here. Nancy Blackett and Peter Duck at the Royal Harwich Yacht Club on the Friday: […]
One week on from the hugely successful Arthur Ransome Pin Mill Jamboree, here are our photos of the event in our album on Flickr.
Nancy Blackett was featured in a television preview of the Arthur Ransome Pin Mill Jamboree last Friday (12th May) on BBC Look East. The preview also featured short interviews with Peter Willis, President of the Nancy Blackett Trust, the children of Holbrook Academy, Suffolk rehearsing part of their play of “We Didn’t Mean to go to […]
An updated schedule of guest talks has been released for the Literary Lounge at the Arthur Ransome Pin Mill Jamboree taking place this Saturday (13th May). The revised running order is as follows: 1:30pm – 2pm: Ransome, Reporter of the Russian Revolution by Paul Anderson, writer, journalist and lecturer at the University of Essex. 2:15pm – 2:45pm: Ransome and […]
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