The 80th Anniversary Marathon Reading of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea” took place yesterday (21st October) on a sunny and blustery day at Pin Mill Sailing Club, where Arthur Ransome was a member when he wrote the book and lived in the area. The event was organised by Peter Willis, President of the Nancy […]
There’s just one day to go to our Marathon Reading of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea”, starting at 9am tomorrow (Saturday 21st October). In honour of the book’s 80th anniversary (first published in November 1937), we have a First Edition book; our readers, including Griff Rhys Jones, Libby Purves and Sophie Neville; our […]
With just a couple of days to go to our 80th Anniversary Marathon Reading of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea”, here’s the official programme for the day. Starting at 9am on Saturday 21st, our readers include celebrities such as Griff Rhys Jones, Libby Purves and Sophie Neville. It all takes place at the Pin Mill […]
Following this summer’s epic eight-week sailing adventure in Holland, Nancy Blackett had sailed back to England in challenging conditions, and berthed in Lowestoft with a suspected engine failure following a tow in by the Lowestoft lifeboat. Here’s the story of her repairs and final sail back to Woolverstone during the first week of August… Dispatches from […]
The Nancy Blackett Trust has commissioned this Limited Edition Bookmark to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the publication of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea” in November 1937 – and the Marathon Reading next Saturday. Each of the readers will be presented with one of these unique souvenirs – and you too can own […]
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. Her final two weeks in Holland started out benignly enough, but the voyage back to England concluded in a way that no-one could have foreseen… Nancy Blackett’s penultimate […]
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. The stories of the 6th week are told by Nick Ardagh-Walter: A sixth week of Zeeland adventures with Nancy Blackett Nancy Blackett and the Deluge Nancy Blackett: Farewell […]
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 […]
There’s just a week to go to our Marathon Reading of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea”, starting 9am next Saturday, 21st October. We have our book, a First Edition, in honour of the book’s 80th anniversary (first published November 1937). We have our readers, including Griff Rhys Jones, Libby Purves and Sophie Neville. […]
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. This was the week that Sophie Neville joined Nancy Blackett’s crew, and here are the stories of what happened: Nancy Blackett prepares for a third week of Dutch […]
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 what happened during her second week’s sailing: Dispatch from Wemeldinge Nancy Blackett still in Wemeldinge To Zierikzee for Nancy Blackett Dispatch from Colinsplaat […]
The Nancy Blackett Trust’s Chairman Peter Willis was interviewed by afternoon presenter Lesley Dolphin on BBC Radio Suffolk on October 9th. Topics covered included the upcoming 80th Anniversary Marathon Reading of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea” at Pin Mill, discovering and rediscovering the “Swallows and Amazons” stories, how the Nancy Blackett Trust happened, the […]
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