Arthur Ransome’s Nancy Blackett has returned to Littlehampton in Sussex, as part of her three-week summer visit to the Solent. Nancy Blackett was built by David Hillyard of Littlehampton in 1931, and arrived in the port this afternoon (Thursday 22nd June) having departed from Woolverstone on Sunday morning, with intermediate stops at Ramsgate, Dover, Eastbourne […]
Selina King, the yacht that Arthur Ransome had built as a replacement for Nancy Blackett, visited the Nancy Blackett Trust’s AGM on Saturday, following her relaunch after an eleven-year restoration. Built by Harry King’s of Pin Mill in 1938, she recently returned there to complete the work originated in Bermuda and continued in Chichester Harbour. […]
Sailing Secretary Norman Savigar took this photo of Nancy Blackett at Pin Mill on Thursday 16th March. Sporting a fresh red coat of anti-foul paint, she is being prepared to go back on the water at Pin Mill in the next week or so after spending the winter ashore.Â
Nancy Blackett is now ashore for the winter, following a long and busy autumn afloat, making the most of the unseasonably mild weather. She was collected last week from her berth at Woolverstone Marina on the spring tide and brought just a mile downriver to Pin Mill by Gus Curtis – to be lifted out […]
Yesterday was a good day for Nancy Blackett at the St Katharine Dock Classic Boat Show in London, writes Bob Hull. It got off to a slow start after the Nancy Blackett crew went around to some other boats informing them they were incorrectly dressed in light of the guidance on Accession Day that flags […]
The fourth day of Nancy Blackett’s voyage to St Katharine Dock in London saw an early start, leaving Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey at 6am yesterday after a night of heavy rain, and heading up the River Thames while avoiding further showers. Nancy Blackett passed the busy Thames Gateway container terminal and headed to […]
Sue Stott, the winner of the 2019 Nancy Blackett Trust raffle for a day-sail on Nancy Blackett, and a life-long Arthur Ransome fan, joined Nancy Blackett with her husband Peter for their prize sail on the 18th August. With Sue Coales and Mike Hilton as skipper and mate, they sailed down to Harwich in rather […]
Last Tuesday, Nancy Blackett was out on the River Orwell being filmed for Anglia TV for her 90th anniversary, but getting there was something of an adventure in itself, write Sue Coales… It all began at Easter when Victoria Lampard, presenter for Anglia TV News, got in touch about filming Nancy Blackett as part of […]
Arthur Ransome’s favourite yacht, Nancy Blackett, was launched last Thursday (29th April) with celebrations marking her 90th anniversary, as shown in our photo gallery of the day below…
In mid-January John Heath visited the Walton Backwaters, the location of “Secret Water” in Arthur Ransome’s book of the same name, and has shared the following photos that he took of the Wade, the Witches’ House and Quay, and Speedy Creek: If you are interested in finding out more about “Secret Water”, both the Arthur […]
Sophie Neville, who played ‘Titty’ in the original Swallows and Amazons film, and former President of the Arthur Ransome Society, writes about her visit to the Windermere Jetty Museum earlier this year… In the summer of 1973, I was transported to the shores of Windermere, ‘The Great Lake in the North’ to appear as ‘Titty […]
Last Thursday a small team of Trust members helped prepare Nancy Blackett’s end-of-season laying up at Robertson’s in Woodbridge. Contents of the cabin, along with the liferaft and other equipment were removed and packed away for the winter, and the sails were stripped in readiness for the haul-out, which took place on the Friday. Neil […]
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