Arthur Ransome’s Nancy Blackett sailed into the Dutch port of Vlissingen (Flushing) on the morning of 7 June, seventy years, almost to the day, after the author himself completed the same voyage in the same boat. The Nancy Blackett Trust has mounted two previous North Sea crossings in Nancy. The difference between them and this […]
Ship’s Boy Mark Jacobson joins Nancy Blackett on an expedition to Secret Water. On many occasions Nancy has met with Privateers. Not that this has been in any way a problem to her: although boarded by such, they always have an official ‘letter of marque’ authorising their activities, signed by no less a personage than […]
Nancy Blackett has finally returned home following her epic Summer voyage along the south coast of England. Along the way she revisited her birthplace, Hillyards of Littlehampton, for the first time, participated in the International Fleet Review, and received many visitors at the International Festival of the Sea. Although she was unable to reach her […]
Nancy Blackett’s epic summer voyage along the South Coast is under way, as one of the highlights of what is turning out to be a very special year, following the record-breaking circumnavigation by patron Ellen MacArthur. Trafalgar 200 and the International Festival of the Sea Nancy has been invited to participate in the International Fleet […]
The Nancy Blackett is due to be brought round to Woodbridge’s Tidemill Yacht Harbour on Saturday 16th October, where her moveable equipment will be unloaded prior to her liftout at Robertson’s boatyard on Monday 18th. Assistance will be welcomed with the unloading during the day on Saturday, which will be followed by afternoon tea, cake […]
The Nancy Blackett has a new jib and a new staysail, thanks to the generosity of members of the Nancy Blackett Trust, and others. The staysail is about 50% larger than the previous sail, which Jim Andrews noticed looked undersized during the Arthur Ransome Society AGM in 2003. We checked and found that it was […]
The April issue of ‘Sailing Today’, the UK yachting magazine, carries a 4-page feature on Nancy Blackett’s 2003 voyage to Vlissingen and the Dutch classic boat rally at Hellevoetsluis. This was the recreation of ‘We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea’ that featured genuine children (Susie Martin and Beanie Wallace-King), albeit supported by competent adults […]
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