The Nancy Blackett is due to be brought round to Woodbridge’s Tidemill Yacht Harbour on Saturday 16th October, where her moveable equipment will be unloaded prior to her liftout at Robertson’s boatyard on Monday 18th. Assistance will be welcomed with the unloading during the day on Saturday, which will be followed by afternoon tea, cake […]
The Nancy Blackett has a new jib and a new staysail, thanks to the generosity of members of the Nancy Blackett Trust, and others. The staysail is about 50% larger than the previous sail, which Jim Andrews noticed looked undersized during the Arthur Ransome Society AGM in 2003. We checked and found that it was […]
The Nancy Blackett Trust’s Patron Ellen MacArthur is interviewed in the July/August 2004 edition of ‘E-Motion’, South West Trains’ passenger magazine. You can read the article here, or obtain the paper edition of the magazine free-of-charge from South West Trains.
The date of the Nancy Blackett Trust’s AGM has been moved to Saturday 10 July. The venue is the Royal Harwich Yacht Club, Woolverstone, Suffolk. The change of date is in order to secure the use of the club which has proved a favourite in the past, and is very convenient for organising sailing trips […]
The April issue of ‘Sailing Today’, the UK yachting magazine, carries a 4-page feature on Nancy Blackett’s 2003 voyage to Vlissingen and the Dutch classic boat rally at Hellevoetsluis. This was the recreation of ‘We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea’ that featured genuine children (Susie Martin and Beanie Wallace-King), albeit supported by competent adults […]
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