Nancy Blackett had a busy Autumn between her Dutch Adventure over the summer and the 80th Anniversary Marathon Reading of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea” in October, writes John Smith… At the end of September, Nancy Blackett had a truncated weekend cruise, with a Saturday sail in a gentle breeze from Woolverstone down […]
Following this summer’s epic eight-week sailing adventure in Holland, Nancy Blackett had sailed back to England in challenging conditions, and berthed in Lowestoft with a suspected engine failure following a tow in by the Lowestoft lifeboat. Here’s the story of her repairs and final sail back to Woolverstone during the first week of August… Dispatches from […]
This summer Nancy Blackett went on an epic eight-week sailing adventure in Holland, following her commemorative departure in a 40-boat flotilla from the Royal Harwich Yacht Club. Her final two weeks in Holland started out benignly enough, but the voyage back to England concluded in a way that no-one could have foreseen… Nancy Blackett’s penultimate […]
This summer Nancy Blackett went on an epic eight-week sailing adventure in Holland, following her commemorative departure in a 40-boat flotilla from the Royal Harwich Yacht Club. The stories of the 6th week are told by Nick Ardagh-Walter: A sixth week of Zeeland adventures with Nancy Blackett Nancy Blackett and the Deluge Nancy Blackett: Farewell […]
This summer Nancy Blackett went on an epic eight-week sailing adventure in Holland, following her commemorative departure in a 40-boat flotilla from the Royal Harwich Yacht Club. Here are the stories of the 4th and 5th weeks from Peter Willis, Tony Clarke and Jon Millward: Signals from Zeeland Nancy Blackett sails the Riddle of the […]
There’s just a week to go to our Marathon Reading of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea”, starting 9am next Saturday, 21st October. We have our book, a First Edition, in honour of the book’s 80th anniversary (first published November 1937). We have our readers, including Griff Rhys Jones, Libby Purves and Sophie Neville. […]
This summer Nancy Blackett went on an epic eight-week sailing adventure in Holland, following her commemorative departure in a 40-boat flotilla from the Royal Harwich Yacht Club. This was the week that Sophie Neville joined Nancy Blackett’s crew, and here are the stories of what happened: Nancy Blackett prepares for a third week of Dutch […]
This summer Nancy Blackett went on an epic eight-week sailing adventure in Holland, following her commemorative departure in a 40-boat flotilla from the Royal Harwich Yacht Club. Here are the stories of what happened during her second week’s sailing: Dispatch from Wemeldinge Nancy Blackett still in Wemeldinge To Zierikzee for Nancy Blackett Dispatch from Colinsplaat […]
This summer Nancy Blackett went on an epic eight-week sailing adventure in Holland, following her commemorative departure in a 40-boat flotilla from the Royal Harwich Yacht Club. We reported the news of her first week’s sailing as follows: Nancy Blackett has arrived safely in Holland Dispatches from Middelburg Nancy Blackett is now in Veere Dispatches […]
Sophie Neville, President of the Arthur Ransome Society and “Titty Walker” in the 1974 “Swallows and Amazons” film, spent a week sailing Nancy Blackett in Dutch waters earlier this summer. Here’s the second half of her story… Nancy Blackett, the 28-foot cutter that Arthur Ransome bought with Spanish gold, as he called his royalties from […]
Sophie Neville, President of the Arthur Ransome Society and “Titty Walker” in the 1974 “Swallows and Amazons” film, spent a week sailing Nancy Blackett in Dutch waters earlier this summer. Here’s the first part of her story… This summer, I grabbed the chance to sail Arthur Ransome’s favourite little ship, the Nancy Blackett. If you recognise […]
The Nancy Blackett Trust’s Sailing Secretary John Smith tells the story of a very special day out sailing Nancy Blackett for two of the Trust’s members… I took newly-weds Laura and James for an overdue wedding present sail on Nancy Blackett on Saturday. Setting off from Woolverstone soon after 10am, we managed to slip into a […]
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