Nancy Blackett (cutter)

Nancy Blackett is a 28-foot (8.5 m), 7-ton (Thames Measurement), Bermuda rigged sailing cutter built in 1931.

[2] Built by David Hillyard and originally named Spindrift at her launch in 1931 (and then renamed Electron by her next owner), she was bought by children's author Arthur Ransome in 1934 and renamed Nancy Blackett after the major character of the same name in his Swallows and Amazons series of children's books.

He sailed her mostly on the east coast of England and the southern North Sea from her home port of Pin Mill near Harwich.

[3] Ransome's cruises also provided material for another book Secret Water (1939) set in the Walton backwaters.

An appeal to Arthur Ransome fans raised the asking price and she was purchased and a Trust set up which owns, operates and maintains her.