In photos: The Arthur Ransome Pin Mill Jamboree
One week on from the hugely successful Arthur Ransome Pin Mill Jamboree, here are our photos of the event in our album on Flickr.
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Arthur Ransome’s Selina King boat building photographs exhibition at Pin Mill
Nancy Blackett Trust’s exhibition project wins National Lottery support The Nancy Blackett Trust has received £8,300-plus from the Heritage Lottery Fund for its project to present Arthur Ransome’s own photos of the building of his yacht Selina King at Pin Mill, Suffolk, in 1938. Made possible by money raised by National Lottery players, the photographs will […]
Nancy Blackett’s Last Sail of the Season
Skipper John Smith recounts the final sail of Nancy Blackett’s 2016 season. We had planned on a local area cruise before entering the River Deben, but, with several days of strong easterlies, we were left banking on a possible short break in the weather on the morning of the planned laying-up day, Saturday 15th October. […]
Photo: Nancy Blackett after her season’s end
Photos: Nancy Blackett’s August Cruise
Nicola Farr and Richard Wainwright tell the story of this year’s August Cruise. During her recent August cruise, Nancy Blackett and crew visited Aldeburgh Yacht Club’s Lapwing ‘World Championship’ event. The Lapwing is a 12ft clinker dinghy, exclusive to the Aldeburgh Yacht Club, and built between the 1940s and 1960s. Following a great sail up […]
Photos: Nancy Blackett, Woolverstone and Pin Mill
The Nancy Blackett Trust held its 20th Anniversary AGM on Saturday 2nd July at its traditional venue of the Royal Harwich Yacht Club. During the day Nancy Blackett was available to members for short sailing trips downriver to Pin Mill. See the photos in our Flickr album of the day.
Photos: Eastern Angles Cast Take to the Water on Nancy Blackett
The cast of Eastern Angles’ production of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea” took a few hours out of rehearsals on Thursday to literally learn the ropes. They visited the Nancy Blackett – Arthur Ransome’s own boat and the original of the Goblin in the book (and play) – at Woolverstone Marina to find […]
We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea – Japanese Style!
Look at what turned up in the post today: the Japanese edition of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea”, published in two volumes. With thanks to Dr Naoya Umeda of the Department of Naval Architecture at Osaka University, and a long-time supporter of Nancy Blackett. If you’d like to help Nancy Blackett to last forever, […]
Nancy Blackett is safely home
Nancy Blackett is now safely home at Woolverstone and the season’s adventures can begin! Here she is passing Felixstowe Ferry (opposite Bawdsey Quay) this afternoon in a stiff breeze. She was rolling quite a bit when she crossed the Deben Bar shortly after high water.  Our thanks to Claudia Myatt, Neil Brookes and Rod Webb for […]
An Autumn Cruise (with photos)
At the beginning of October Nancy Blackett enjoyed her annual Autumn Cruise, the last of the season, which included a brief return to “Secret Water”, skipper John Smith writes. The crew had all arrived by late Saturday afternoon, so, making the most of a nice evening, we set off for a night in Shotley, arriving […]
A Secret Water Adventure (with photos)
Over the August Bank Holiday weekend Nancy Blackett joined in a “Secret Water” adventure that was organised by Royal Cruising Club members, and it all went ahead very successfully. Along with other “mother ships”, several youngsters sailed dinghies and enjoyed camping adventures ashore, in real “Swallows and Amazons” style. The Friday evening saw a temporary […]
Photos: Maritime Ipswich
Nancy Blackett spent the weekend of 14/15th August entertaining and educating visitors to Maritime Ipswich. Our thanks to all the members of the Trust who volunteered to make this possible. See our Flickr photo album from the Saturday here.
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