Nancy’s laying-up this weekend

This Saturday, October 23rd, sees the end of Nancy Blackett's sailing season with laying-up day in Woodbridge. From 11am, members will be gathering in the Tidemill Marina to clear and clean Nancy. In the afternoon, …

Open day this weekend

Nancy Blackett will be on display this Saturday, 25th September at Woolverstone Marina  – come and see Arthur Ransome’s Goblin, step aboard, look around and find out about opportunities for sailing aboard her. Everyone is …

She DID mean to go to sea

Young fan’s ‘pier-head jump’ aboard Nancy Blackett. Nancy Blackett’s return voyage form the Maritime Woodbridge festival turned into an adventure reminiscent of Arthur Ransome’s “We Didn’t Mean to Go To Sea”, when a young American …

Woodbridge this weekend – and an anniversary

Nancy Blackett’s appearance at the Maritime Woodbridge Festival this weekend (11th-12th September) coincides with an important anniversary in her long career. It will be exactly seventy-five years ago on Sunday that Arthur Ransome purchased her …

Good Luck Laura Dekker!

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 …

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