Sailing Nancy

Nancy is Ready for the Summer

The Nancy Blackett is relaunched, rerigged, fitted-out and back on her pontoon at Woolverstone, ready for a summer of sailing. A select working party braved the wind and intermittent rain on Saturday to undertake the …

Antifouling All Done!

Nancy’s antifouling was carried out over the weekend by a small but enthusiastic working party of NBT members. The weather – Nancy was outdoors this year – was fine, sunny and a bit breezy and …

Sail into Summer Aboard Nancy Blackett

The Nancy Blackett returns to the water at the end of March, so once again there will be many new opportunities to sail aboard her this year. There is plenty of scope for both newcomers …

An Action-Packed Season Ahead

This year’s programme of events starts with the traditional anti-fouling weekend at Robertson’s yard, Woodbridge, from Saturday 21st March. The following weekend is for fitting out at Tide Mill Marina, Woodbridge, and finally sailing Nancy …

Two crew places available on Nancy

Last chance for a sail on Nancy this year! Two crew places available. Join at Woolverstone Thursday 16th October (and possibly sail part of the way that day) and sail to Woodbridge on the 17th, …

Sailing Nancy Newsletter

All members of the Trust who are on the Sailing Nancy newsletter list should now have received the latest edition by post. The headline news is a new sailing secretary, details for John Benford below, …

Sailing Nancy Availability

Places are still available in September (and mid-week in October) to sail on Nancy.Contact the Sailing Secretary! John Benford, Sailing Secretary The Nancy Blackett Trust13 Prospect PlaceLeistonSuffolkUKIP16 4AL Tel.: 01728 832579 email: nancyblackettsailsec(at)googlemail(dot)com

First Hoisting of Yankee

In the last edition of “Jibbooms and Bobstays” the Editor asked to see the first photos of the new yankee jib sail in use. The sail, provided from the will of Terry Absalom, one of …

Fantastic Voyage

Nancy Blackett left Dover today at 5:20am. The passage north was fast in generally good conditions, with a few rough patches, and allowed an unexpectedly early arrival home in Woolverstone at 5:30pm. Our thanks go …

Day of Bright Water

Our intrepid crew set sail from a much drier Eastbourne at 9:15am, sailing across almost benign seas, with moderate winds not exceeding force 5. A much pleasanter day than yesterday saw the Nancy Blackett arrive …

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