At the last International Festival Of the Sea ( IFOS, and what's happened, will there be another ?! ) there was Arthur Ransomes' boat 'Nancy Blackett' which 'Goblin' of 'We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea' was based on.
Quite something going aboard ( after a boyhood imagining her ) and chatting with the ladies smartly dressed in 'Amazons' pirate gear, an historic A.R. devoted association runs the boat now;
