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Nancy Blackett and crew are safely back in Woolverstone, having arrived at midnight after a calm crossing of the Thames Estuary.

Yesterday’s weather forecast suggested perhaps a day in Eastbourne today, but in the event, today’s weather was not too bad, so the decision was made to take advantage of the wind-with-tide-downwind opportunity and set off …

Nancy Blackett and her new crew commenced their return journey from the Solent as the crack of dawn today, departing from Haslar just after 4am. This meant that they made the Looe Channel at slack …

Skipper Rod Webb reports that Nancy Blackett and her crew enjoyed a glorious sail yesterday, out past Hurst Castle and the Needles, round the Shingles Bank and back through the North Channel to Lymington. They …

Skipper Rod Webb reported a good sail earlier today (Wednesday). The relative shelter of Port Hamble and Southampton Water gave way to a blustery F5 out in the Solent – raising enough of a chop …

John Smith reports that this morning was very bleak out on the Solent, but wind had initially dropped off so Nancy Blackett and crew ventured out, hoping for Lymington, but conditions were too nasty, so …

Due to the unsettled weather, John Smith reports that an attempt was made this evening to sail to Lymington. With the tide just turning west, and wind seemingly dropped, Nancy Blackett and crew optimistically left Cowes earlier …

Nancy Blackett and crew ventured out into the Solent from Portsmouth today, and are currently in East Cowes marina. Heavy rain and winds were stronger than forecast and far from ideal to make it to …

Nancy Blackett and crew are now in Port Solent after an interesting day, particularly when they neared the America’s Cup fleet, and had to pass outside of an exclusion zone, although they did enjoy seeing the fleet …