Just a final reminder that "Paddling with Peter Duck", the BBC Radio 4 documentary featuring the Nancy Blackett, will be broadcast tomorrow at 11:30am. If you miss the programme, we will have the BBC iPlayer stream once it is available later in the day. However, we do not know if it will be accessable if […]
The Nancy Blackett and her crew have arrived in Willemstad, having partly sailed, but mostly motored, from Hellevoetsluis. The weather remained fine until the last half-hour of the voyage, when it started raining. Tomorrow's destination is Veere, approximately ten hours away.
The Nancy Blackett and her crew had a mostly uneventful trip up to Hellevoersluis last week from Middelberg, via Steenberg and Willemstad. While she basks under a hot August sun, the ship and her crew aim to make it back to Middelburg on Thursday, before a return weekend crossing from Ostend to Harwich. We hope […]
New photos from Nancy Blackett’s 80th Anniversary journey to and around Holland have been added to our Flickr albums, courtesy of Andy Beck.
A new photo of the movie Swallow and Nancy Blackett sailing together on the Orwell has been added to our Swallow and Nancy Blackett in Action on the Orwell album, courtesy of John Benford.
A new photo of the movie Swallow being sailed Sophie Neville, Claudia Myatt and Mark Jacobson at our AGM weekend has been added to our Sailing Swallow at Woolverstone album, courtesy of Andy Beck.
The Nancy Blackett Trust is pleased to announce a new fundraising venture in the form of the Nancy Blackett Gallery, where you may purchase images from our albums in a variety of prints, poster prints, photo-gifts and wall decor. You may see the complete product list here. To launch the Nancy Blackett Gallery, we have […]
Swallow's Skipper during the AGM weekend, Mark Jacobson, writes: Being a wooden clinker built boat, you might think that Swallow would be heavy. This she is not. Either on her launching trolley or on the water she is light, and very quickly responds to a gust of wind. With her long keel, going about has […]
Just a quick reminder that the BBC radio documentary "Paddling with Peter Duck" will be broadcast next week. The half-hour programme features John McCarthy exploring the life of Arthur Ransome through the boats he has owned, including Nancy Blackett and Peter Duck. Peter Willis, Chairman of the Nancy Blackett Trust, recorded a segment with John […]
A new video of Sophie Neville and crew departing upriver on the Nancy Blackett in some belated sunshine, following our 14th AGM on 16th July 2011.
“Swallows and Amazons” the musical will be appearing at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, over the Christmas period. Announced today in the Stage and the theatre press, tickets went on sale for the reprise of the Bristol Old Vic production that premièred to rave reviews last December. Adapted by Helen Edmundson from the novel by Arthur […]
A new video of the movie Swallow and Nancy Blackett sailing on the River Orwell at Woolverstone, following our 14th AGM on 16th July 2011.
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