The original Lottie Blossom (now Ragged Robin III), owned by Arthur Ransome from 1951-52, is now for sale. A 6-ton, centre-cockpit Hillyard yacht, Ragged Robin is cutter-rigged, and has been restored…
The start of Nancy Blackett’s fifth week in Holland was on the wet side, as crewman Tony Clarke writes… “We ventured out of Middelburg in heavy drizzle up to the lock at Veere. and…
In Peter Willis’ final report from his week onboard Nancy Blackett, he writes… We’re on the train back to Hook of Holland and John Millward and his crew are now aboard Nancy…
Born in Woodbridge, Julia Jones has spent her life influenced by the people and places dotted along the shifting coastline between Lowestoft and the Blackwater. Her Strong Winds books – ostensibly for older children, but actually of equal appeal to adult readers – are both a homage to and a twenty-first century expression of the sense of exploration inherent in Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons series.
Peter Willis sheds some light on the most recent adventures of Nancy Blackett and her crew… Following Wednesday’s cracking sail on the Oosterschelde, we enjoyed a convivial drink with…
When I first posted an extract from ‘The Secrets of filming Swallows and Amazons’ on a literary website, someone wrote a review assuming it to be a novel…
Today we had our best sail of the week so far for the current Nancy Blackett crew, which we’ve dubbed the Riddle of the Sands passage, or possibly the Riddle of the Middle, writes Peter Willis….
Watch High Water Mark perform a sea shanty at the Royal Harwich Yacht Club before the Parade of Sail flotilla on 4th June 2017:
Author Arthur Ransome’s classic 1930 children’s adventure yarn – which has already spawned successful film, radio, stage and television adaptations – gets another outing on the big screen. Thankfully, this latest version does not try to drag the quaint …