Nancy Blackett has featured in two articles this week: a preview of the forthcoming Round the Island Race – "Britain's favourite yacht race is just around the corner" (Afloat) an exploration of the Walton Backwaters, the setting for "Secret Water" – "Walton Backwaters: Going with the flow in Essex" (Telegraph)
Nancy Blackett is featured in the Times as part of its coverage of this weekend’s Thames Festival: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article6829461.ece Nancy reached St Katherine’s Dock, London, at 5PM today and should be open to visitors during most of the weekend.
Nancy Blackett was listed in a selection of 10 ‘important boats’ representing Britain’s seafaring heritage featured in a recent issue of Country Life. The selection, made by Dan Houston, editor of Classic Boat magazine, represents “an eclectic look at a handful of boats, all of which are sailing today: “Each vessel… has contributed to our […]
The Nancy Blackett has just attended the second Woodbridge Maritime Festival. Already a modern tradition on the annual circuit, she received a good number of visitors, who were offered additional entertainment from Sabina Wallace-King on violin and Gabriel Woolf's readings. Nancy was accompanied by Peter Duck and Ragged Robin, and was awarded the Trimley Maid […]
Earlier this morning Dame Ellen MacArthur, Patron of the Nancy Blackett Trust, crossed the finish line near Singapore at the end of the eleventh and final leg of the inaugural Asian Record Circuit, having established thirteen records between various ports in south-east Asia. With an international crew onboard the trimaran B&Q, including sailors from France, […]
The Nancy Blackett Trust’s Patron Dame Ellen MacArthur has been voted France’s favourite European Personality, ahead of people like Luciano Pavarotti, Michael Schumacher, The Pope and HM Queen Elizabeth II. The survey was conducted by IFOP, which interviewed 1,005 people on April 27th and 28th. Ellen also was voted the favourite personality by French men, […]
The fastest sailor around the world is now the fastest Star in a Reasonably Priced Car. Ellen MacArtur, Patron of the Nancy Blackett Trust, saw off fifty-nine other celebrities on the BBC’s Top Gear show yesterday when she posted the fastest lap time of them all. Ellen was invited to take the challenge in a […]
Nancy Blackett features in this evening’s episode of Meridian TV’s ‘River Walks’, hosted by Charlie Dimmock. Tonight’s programme focuses on the River Arun, and includes a section on Hillyards, the Littlehampton boatbuilder where Nancy Blackett was built. Nancy happened to be there herself when the programme was being filmed – revisiting her birthplace for the […]
Following the release in March by the National Records Office of two reconstituted government files concerning Arthur Ransome’s years in Russia, the BBC commissioned a documentary film which Griff Rhys Jones investigated whether Ransome was a British spy or a Bolshevik sympathiser during the Russian Revolution in 1917. Griff Rhys Jones also tracked down the […]
Nancy Blackett’s historic visit to Hillyard’s boatyard in Littlehampton was later covered by ‘Practical Boatowner’. The article is entitled “Nancy Comes Home” and may be read here.
Nancy Blackett’s historic visit to Hillyard’s boatyard in Littlehampton was covered in the local press. ‘Littlehampton Today’ published an article entitled “Nancy’s Amazon journey”, which may be read here.
Nancy Blackett has gained a place in ‘Classic Boat’ magazine‘s listing of the top 200 classic boats. The list was compiled, with votes from readers, to mark the magazine’s 200th issue, cover-dated February 2005, and on sale from mid-January. Nancy Blackett is in the top half of the table, which is particularly gratifying as she […]
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