![]() ![]() Renamed not once but twice, as she soon commenced her parallel existence as Goblin, heroine of We Didn’t Mean To Go to Sea and expedition ship in Ransome’s 1939 novel Secret Water. I was immediately impressed by the way in which Peter Willis brings together different aspects of the Nancy story.įirst there is the yacht herself, the artefact: built in Littlehampton in 1931 then passing through two ownerships and two names before being purchased by Ransome in 1935 and promptly renamed once again. I was wrong on both counts: the pleasure of a well-written, well-organised sailing book (which this is) is to bring a knowledge into a clearer perspective, to articulate half-remembered fragments and arrange them into a new whole – thus making the case, without fuss, for the value of the subject. Or perhaps I thought it might overstate Nancy’s virtue and significance. PD and I have attended several of her AGMs and other events together and I wasn’t certain that Good Little Ship would tell me anything I didn’t already know. ![]()
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