This image of Nancy Blackett by photographer Gill Moon is now available as a greeting card and in her 2014 East Coast Calendar. The photo shows Nancy sailing in Harwich Harbour, with skipper Bryan Bonser waving from the cockpit. It is available as a 7in x 5in greeting card, blank inside with an envelope, for £2 […]
Julia Jones will be signing copies of her new book "The Lion of Sole Bay" at the Woodbridge Cruising Club this Friday from 6pm. The event is being co-hosted by the Nancy Blackett Trust – and if you can't get there in person you can now buy the book from us at the special price […]
Nancy Blackett has had a busy autumn cruising season so far, with more to come. While she is due to embark on her official Autumn Cruise tomorrow, the recent change in the weather serves to remind us of a much different scene only a month ago in mid-September, with mostly light winds, and some residual […]
"The Lion of Sole Bay", just published, is the latest novel from Julia Jones, author of the Ransome-inspired Strong Winds Trilogy. It is a standalone story focusing on Luke, Anna's half-brother from the trilogy. He is expecting a half-term week with his dad Bill, aboard Bill's liveaboard fishing boat, but things soon go very wrong, […]
This iPad advertisement on the London Underground features the ebook version of the new Vintage Classics edition of "Swallows and Amazons". If you would prefer it as a proper book – we've got it!
Last Thursday Nancy Blackett welcomed aboard a party of pupils from Brandeston Hall school near Woodbridge. They are currently reading "We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea" in class and their teacher James Loveridge had planned to show them Pin Mill – he was amazed to learn that the Goblin was moored only a mile […]
Our photos of Pin Mill last Saturday, during and after the BBC’s filming of Nancy Blackett for David Dimbleby’s new TV series due in November 2013. View our Flickr photoset here.
Our behind-the-scenes photos of Nancy Blackett sailing at Pin Mill (and berthed back at Woolverstone) for the BBC’s filming of David Dimbleby’s new TV series due in November 2013. View our Flickr photoset here.
Our behind-the-scenes photos of the BBC filming David Dimbleby visiting Nancy Blackett at Pin Mill for his new TV series due in November 2013. View our Flickr photoset here.
A short behind-the-scenes video of David Dimbleby being filmed rowing out to Nancy Blackett at Pin Mill last Saturday. Nancy Blackett will be featured in his upcoming new BBC series which is due to be broadcast in November.
Last Saturday, patrons of Pin Mill's Butt & Oyster were intrigued to see a BBC crew filming David Dimbleby sitting at one of the outside tables, with the Hard stretched out behind him and a copy of "We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea" in his hand… It was all in aid of a new […]
Rare recordings of Arthur Ransome reading extracts from his books have recently been restored and featured on BBC local radio. An interview broadcast across BBC local radio last week included extracts from the recordings and told the story of how they were rediscovered by Stephen Sykes, a retired financial advisor, novelist and astrophysicist who now […]
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