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…
In today’s message (with more photos and a video) from Tony Clarke, Nancy Blackett had a varied voyage from Veere to Goes: “Monday – From Veere to Goes we had some motoring and some…
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…