Sailing Nancy Blackett is the title of a new video portraying Nancy Blackett under sail on the river Orwell. Shot specially for the Nancy Blackett Trust by film-maker Jon Swallow, the seven-minute short features narration by the Trust’s founder and president Peter Willis and shows Arthur Ransome’s ‘best little boat’ setting sail from Woolverstone Marina […]
Nancy Blackett has made it to London in plenty of time for this weekend’s Classic Boat Festival at St Katharine Dock. She can be visited on Saturday and Sunday during festival hours. Further details of the festival are here. Nancy Blackett and crew by Tower Bridge earlier this morning. Photo: Bob Hull.
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 […]
On the third day of her first cruise since her relaunch, Nancy Blackett spent a day on the River Medway before continuing to next weekend’s Classic Boat Show at St Katharine Docks, London. Having survived an overnight thunderstorm with heavy rain, Nancy Blackett’s crew saw some ropemaking at Chatham Historic Dockyard yesterday, before departing downriver back to […]
On the second day of her first cruise since her relaunch, Nancy Blackett has reached the River Medway while en route to next weekend’s Classic Boat Show at St Katharine Docks, London. Nancy Blackett left Brightlingsea yesterday morning to cross the Thames Estuary, which was flat calm, even glassy at one stage. There were very few other boats […]
In her first cruise since her relaunch, Nancy Blackett is en route to next weekend’s Classic Boat Show at St Katharine Docks, London. After some repairs to a diesel leak in new engine on Saturday afternoon and a visit from our esteemed President, Peter Willis, she left Woolverstone yesterday, on a glorious hot sunny morning, […]
Nancy Blackett has at last returned to active service after an enforced four-month lay-up. She sank at her moorings immediately after her seasonal relaunch at the end of April, leading to a long period of repairs and refurbishment, which included installation of a new engine and extensive electrical rewiring. The cause of the overnight submersion […]
Nancy Blackett has successfully returned to her winter quarters at Woodbridge. On Thursday (7th October) skipper Neil Brooks (with Tim Everson and Mike Hilton) sailed her round from Woolverstone Marina on the River Orwell to the Deben, where she went into the Woodbridge Tidemill Marina. Ian McGlynn, chairman of the Nancy Blackett Trust’s Sailing Committee, […]
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 […]
Arthur Ransome’s favourite yacht, Nancy Blackett, will be seen nationwide on ITV1 this Sunday at 11:55am. She will appear in the first episode of the new series of All Around Britain, which explores some of the most glorious and fascinating visitor destinations and landmarks across Britain and Northern Ireland, and brings viewers the very best […]
At the end of his piece to camera for the ITV Anglia news story on Nancy Blackett at 90, Mike Rines, who rescued and restored her over 40 years ago to exactly as she was when Ransome owned her, confessed “actually I’d love to have another sail on her.” We can take a hint. And […]
Arthur Ransome’s favourite yacht, Nancy Blackett, has celebrated her 90th Anniversary by being featured in a short segment that was broadcast on ITV News Anglia on Monday evening. Hosted by Victoria Lampard, the segment was filmed on the River Orwell on 18th May in near-perfect conditions, and features contributions from the Nancy Blackett Trust’s President […]
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