Nancy Blackett’s end-of-season passage from Woolverstone to Woodbridge was captured on Sunday by Robin Sadler, who has kindly provided the following video of her approaching Woodbridge. To find out more about joining the Trust for the chance to sail on Nancy Blackett please see our Membership page.
Earlier this month the intrepid Jon Porter, following in the footsteps of author Marc Grimston, explored inside and around the Dog’s Home, the small stone hut in woods that was a location in The Picts and the Martyrs, the eleventh and last completed book set in the Lakes in the Swallows and Amazons series. Jon has kindly provided […]
Watch a video of Nancy Blackett sailing past Harwich in September, filmed by Mark Long. To find out more about joining the Trust for the chance to sail on Nancy Blackett please see our Membership page.
Watch a video of Nancy Blackett sailing on the Orwell in September, filmed by Marjie Edwards. To find out more about joining the Trust for the chance to sail on Nancy Blackett please see our Membership page.
Earlier this week Greg Simpson borrowed the steam launch Bruin for a run down the River Crake from Coniston Water to Allan Tarn (Octopus Lagoon in Swallows and Amazons) as seen in this short video:
Coniston-based adventurer Sean Conway swims to and explores Wild Cat Island (Peel Island, Coniston Water) in this video below. Click the loudspeaker icon in the video playback controls to turn on the sound.
Nancy Blackett was captured sailing at Pin Mill on Sunday in this video by Robin Sadler… ?
Sophie Neville writes about appearing in the documentary “Walton’s Secret Water”, representing the Arthur Ransome Society and celebrating Arthur Ransome’s legacy at next month’s Essex Book Festival. In my role as President of The Arthur Ransome Society, I was interviewed by Chris Opperman for a new documentary produced by David Webb on the Walton Backwaters, […]
Fifteen months of filming have come to an end as documentary Walton’s ‘Secret Water’ launches this autumn, writes Vicky Gale in the Clacton and Frinton Gazette. A year in the life of the Walton Backwaters has been packaged into a 75-minute documentary which profiles the wildlife and human characters that inhabit it, as well as […]
Here are two more videos from Nancy Blackett’s recent visit to London, filmed by Robin Sadler – the skipper on the trip to London. The first video is of Nancy Blackett sailing across the Thames Estuary on her way to London on 8th August, while the second video is of her returning downriver to Greenwich […]
Watch our new video below of Nancy Blackett’s arrival in London last Friday (10th August), and see more about her visit here…
Capturing the essence of sailing on the Norfolk Broads, watch this video of Arthur Ransome’s Nancy Blackett taken by mate Andy Morley, sailing on the River Waveney from the jammed-shut Somerleyton Swing Bridge to Oulton Dyke.…
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