Nancy Blackett’s penultimate week in Holland got off to a leisurely start, writes skipper Barry Goldbourne… Our new crew took over a great-looking Nancy Blackett at midday on Saturday,…
For the last time this week, Nancy Blackett’s current crew waved a tearful goodbye to Veere’s excellent croissant shop, writes Nick Ardagh-Walter… The croissant shop is set amongst…
Wednesday got off to a sodden start for Nancy Blackett and her crew, as Nick Ardagh-Walter reveals… There was solid, heavy rain for about 16 hours, throughout the night and morning, together…
Nancy Blackett and her new crew have had a busy sixth week in Zeeland so far, as new crewman Nick Ardagh-Walter writes. The new crew arrived in Middelburg on Saturday morning and joined sitting…
With 2017 marking the 80th anniversary of the publication of “We Didn’t Mean To Go To Sea” and the 50th anniversary of Ransome’s death, the village of Pin Mill in Suffolk held the Arthur Ransome Pin Mill Jamboree which took place on 13 May, during the Push the Boat Out event…
Journalist Octavia Pollock from “Country Life” magazine recently spent some time aboard Nancy Blackett and around Pin Mill, during the weekend of the Arthur Ransome Pin Mill Jamboree in…
This summer, I grabbed the chance to sail Arthur Ransome’s favourite little ship, the Nancy Blackett. If you recognise her it might be because she was his model for the Goblin in ‘We Didn’t Mean To Go To Sea‘. Although …
Nancy Blackett and her crew were back in Middelburg on Friday, at the end of a week when we visited and revisited favourite places, writes skipper Jon Millward. On Tuesday we arrived in Zierikzee…
A panoramic video of Nancy Blackett and the Royal Harwich Yacht Club on the morning of Sunday 4th July 2017, while preparing for the Parade of Sail flotilla and her departure for the…