Nancy Blackett’s big weekend
Two days of events beside and on the lovely River Orwell began with the Nancy Blackett Trust’s AGM and Summer Social on Saturday 3rd June, and continued on Sunday with a 40-boat flotilla marking…
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This weekend – the Nancy Blackett AGM and flotilla!
This coming weekend, June 3rd and 4th, sees the Nancy Blackett Trust’s AGM and Summer Social on the Saturday, and the flotilla send -off for Nancy Blackett’s commemorative trip to Holland on the…
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“We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea” Celebration
As part of the 80th anniversary of the publication, the Nancy Blackett will be leaving Pin Mill at mid-day on the 4th June and set off on a journey to recreate the voyage the children took…
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Outdoor cinema, literary festival and jamboree coming to Shotley peninsula for Arthur Ransome East Coast Celebration – East Anglian Daily Times
A vintage cinema bus, jamboree and literary festival are just some of the activities booked for a bumper programme of events coming to the Shotley peninsula this summer.
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Grab a chance to sail on Nancy Blackett this year
Even though Nancy Blackett’s due to spend a couple of months in Holland this summer, that still leaves twenty weeks of the sailing season open for you to book a sail – half-day, full day,…
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Nancy Blackett’s new mast, appeal update and more…
Progress continues on Nancy Blackett’s new mast. Making it began in January at specialist spar-makers Collars, while it is now at Robertsons and in the process of being prepared to drop into…
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How to sail on Nancy Blackett this year
Everyone should have the unique experience of sailing Arthur Ransome’s Nancy Blackett, especially around the locations where his Swallows and Amazons series stories “We Didn’t Mean…
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Extracts from Nancy Blackett’s 2016 Logbook
BBC Radio Suffolk visits Nancy’s ‘Push the Boat Out’ open weekend at Woolverstone, and roving reporter Simon Warr is shown how to tie a bowline knot by Peter Willis…
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20, 50, 80 years on… Welcome to the New Year, and to Arthur Ransome’s East Coast…
This new year, 2017, will not only see the 20th anniversary of the Nancy Blackett Trust, but it will also be 80 years since the publication of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea“, and on a more sombre note, 50 years since Arthur Ransome died…