Bringing Nancy Blackett home for the winter
Nancy Blackett’s last sail of the season turned into something of adventure, with a race against the weather to make it in time across the Deben Bar and up to Woodbridge. Sailing Secretary John…
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School comes to Arthur Ransome’s Nancy Blackett
Pupils from a Suffolk school spent a day visiting Nancy Blackett at Woolverstone Marina last week.
Nancy Blackett Trust President Peter Willis was on hand to help show the children from… -
Nancy Blackett’s Hungarian Visitors and Their Special Edition of ‘We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea’
Nancy Blackett is currently holed up in her home berth at Woolverstone Marina with a suspected gearbox problem, writes John Smith, but it did not stop new member Kata Molnár and family visiting her on Sunday…
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Exploring Arthur Ransome’s Lake District
Sophie Neville, President of the Arthur Ransome Society, explores some of the “Swallows and Amazons” locations as revealed in a letter by Arthur Ransome himself…
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The boats used for making the original film ‘Swallows and Amazons’ (1974)
Sophie Neville explores the stories of some of the boats that appeared in the original “Swallows and Amazons” film… I went on BBC Radio Cumbria recently, to ask if I could meet…
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Happy 80th birthday to Arthur Ransome’s Selina King
Today, September 25th, 2018, marks the 80th anniversary of the launch of Arthur Ransome’s Selina King at Harry King’s yard in Pin Mill. The largest and finest of…
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Sister ship to Ransome’s last, lost Lottie for sale
Arthur Ransome’s last yacht was a six-ton aft-cockpit Hillyard sloop which he had built to replace the centre-cockpit Lottie Blossom – which he and his wife Evgenia hadn’t got on with. They…
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More photos of Swallow in the Kendal Torchlight Procession
Swallow, the restored dinghy from the original “Swallows and Amazons” movie, made a special appearance in the annual Kendal Torchlight Procession on Friday (14th September). The theme this year was…
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Swallow’s special appearance at the Kendal Torchlight Procession
Swallow, the famous dinghy from the original “Swallows and Amazons” movie, made a special appearance at the Kendal Torchlight Procession yesterday (14th September).