We’d like to remind you the deadline for the Vintage Books competition is this week – on Friday 5th September. To celebrate the fortieth anniversary and release of the restored 1974 “Swallows and Amazons” film, the Nancy Blackett Trust has teamed up with Vintage Books and Studiocanal to offer you the chance to win a […]
Skipper Phil Durnford has just returned from a “furthest north” cruise at the helm of Nancy Blackett. He writes: I joined Nancy Blackett on Monday 18th August in Ipswich Dock, where she had spent the weekend as part of the OGA fleet at Maritime Ipswich. Colin Embrey as mate and Nicola Farr as crew joined me, […]
Nancy Blackett had a generally successful weekend at this year’s Maritime Ipswich festival, making a number of new friends and gaining some new members for the Trust along the way. See our photo album from Saturday here.
Nancy Blackett will be welcoming visitors at the Maritime Ipswich festival this coming weekend. Maritime Ipswich is the annual festival held in Ipswich, Suffolk on its historic Waterfront. Situated on the River Orwell, it is just a few miles upstream from Pin Mill, where Nancy Blackett appeared as the Goblin in Arthur Ransome’s “We Didn’t […]
To celebrate the fortieth anniversary and release of the restored 1974 “Swallows and Amazons” film, the Nancy Blackett Trust has teamed up with Vintage Books and Studiocanal to offer you the chance to win a bumper prize comprising: a year’s free membership of the Nancy Blackett Trust; a full set of Arthur Ransome Vintage Children’s Classics; […]
You can now see our photo album from the Parade of Sail on 6th July, where for the first time ever, three of Arthur Ransome’s boats sailed together on the River Orwell: Nancy Blackett, Peter Duck and Ragged Robin III. With thanks to Bryan Davies.
It was, in several ways, a historic occasion: for the first time ever, three of Arthur Ransome’s boats sailed together on the River Orwell: Nancy Blackett, Peter Duck and Ragged Robin III set off from Woolverstone last Sunday, 6th July, and cruised in company the river to Levington, where they rafted up together for lunch, […]
You can now see our photo album from Nancy Blackett’s Alde Adventure earlier this month, with thanks to Nicola Key.
On Monday 7th July Nancy Blackett (with Judy Taylor and John Benford) and Peter Duck (with Julia Jones) entertained Year 6 of Chelmondiston Primary School respectively at Woolverstone Marina and the Royal Harwich Yacht Club. They also entertained us – they have been reading “We Didn’t Mean To Go To Sea”, and performed a version […]
As usual, Nancy Blackett was available for short sailing trips for members of the Nancy Blackett Trust on the day of the Trust’s AGM. View our photo album of Nancy Blackett sailing on the River Orwell on 5th July 2014.
Peter Willis became the Nancy Blackett Trust’s first ever President yesterday. He served as chairman of the Nancy Blackett Trust for 17 years until last November, having launched the original Nancy Blackett Appeal in 1996. He set up the Trust a year later when the fundraising target had been reached and Nancy Blackett purchased. Mr. […]
This past week Nancy Blackett has been making the most of the recent fine weather with her first summer cruise up the River Alde and back. In the care of Skipper Richard Wainwright, Nancy Blackett and her crew started her voyage last weekend with overnight stays at Ramsholt (on the River Deben) and Orford. Iken […]
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