The latest biography about Arthur Ransome and how he came to write his famous “Swallows and Amazons” novels is now available from the Nancy Blackett bookstore. “Arthur Ransome: Master Storyteller: Writing the Swallows and Amazon Books” details the fascinating and painstaking process of their creation and evolution, and includes rare and unique material and illustrations, […]
The Round the Island Race, in which Nancy Blackett participated this summer, is the subject of a forthcoming two-part series on Channel 4, called "Britain's Favourite Yacht Race". Both episodes will be broadcast on Saturday mornings – this weekend, 13th November, and again on the 20th November – at 7.30am (but you can use Channel […]
For everyone who came to the Nancy Blackett lift-out weekend hoping, quite reasonably, to see Nancy being lifted out, our apologies. It’s honestly never occurred to us before, but it doesn't work like that. The aim of the weekend is to mark the end of the sailing season, clear Nancy ready for her winter lay-up […]
This Saturday, October 23rd, sees the end of Nancy Blackett's sailing season with laying-up day in Woodbridge. From 11am, members will be gathering in the Tidemill Marina to clear and clean Nancy. In the afternoon, we'll be drawing the raffle and in the evening, laying-up supper at the Cherry Tree pub. If you plan to […]
Our resident artist Claudia Myatt has created a new card, a study of Pin Mill, featuring the Nancy Blackett and recreating a well-known scene from Arthur Ransome's "We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea". The card is now available in our shop, in a pack of 10, for £5.00 plus delivery. As usual, all proceeds […]
You can now learn the ropes in a fun and educational way with our new Learn the Ropes teatowels or notelets. Available as red or blue teatowels or a pack of red notelets, Learn the Ropes has been designed by our resident artist Claudia Myatt and acts as an attractive guide to the Nancy Blackett […]
Nancy Blackett will be on display this Saturday, 25th September at Woolverstone Marina – come and see Arthur Ransome’s Goblin, step aboard, look around and find out about opportunities for sailing aboard her. Everyone is welcome, particularly families, youth groups, sailing clubs, etc. Nancy’s open day, 11am-5pm approx, is part of her home Marina’s own […]
Young fan’s ‘pier-head jump’ aboard Nancy Blackett. Nancy Blackett’s return voyage form the Maritime Woodbridge festival turned into an adventure reminiscent of Arthur Ransome’s “We Didn’t Mean to Go To Sea”, when a young American fan jumped aboard at the last minute. Nancy’s appearance at the festival attracted loads of visitors, including a Japanese fan, […]
Nancy Blackett’s appearance at the Maritime Woodbridge Festival this weekend (11th-12th September) coincides with an important anniversary in her long career. It will be exactly seventy-five years ago on Sunday that Arthur Ransome purchased her in Poole Harbour, for £525, and immediately changed her name from the previous owner’s choice, Electron, to Nancy Blackett, […]
Nancy Blackett was featured in Saturday's Financial Times, in an article by journalist, author and sailor Richard Donkin, who recently experienced the joys of sailing her on the River Orwell, in the company of skippers John Smith and Ed Williams. Click here to read the full article.
Dutch 14-year-old Laura Dekker sets sail on Wednesday 4th August on the shakedown passage to Portugal for the start of her planned solo round-the-world voyage. A modern Nancy Blackett? Perhaps so – she certainly shows the same admirable spirit and determination, and the link with Ransome's characters has not been lost on Peter Hitchens, who […]
Nancy Blackett spent a large part of last weekend aground after inadvertently encountering a mudbank in the River Alde, near Iken. She was on her way to Snape Maltings, and missed a channel withy close to Iken church at around 1245 on Saturday. Skipper Richard Wainwright remained aboard, having sent the rest of the crew […]
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