Dog's Blog

A Look Back at 2024

It was certainly a busy year at Sailing.Dog HQ. Too busy most of the time for frequently updating on social media. But on 27 December, I...

In late 2021, I was surprised and privileged to be invited to sit down and and record an interview with the legendary sailor, Shirley...

A web series of technical articles highlighting some of the major controls generic to most keelboats, we’ll use the 5.5 Metre as a platform.

Was a pleasure to be interviewed by consummate professional and nice bloke, Conrad Humphreys. The interview is part of a series of...

In what seems a long time ago, given the pandemic, I joined Peter and Louise Morton in Sydney this year during January for the 5.5 Metre...

Have a read of the article I wrote for Sailing World last week, discussing the new jib track system for the Etchells. The goal of this...

Over the past six months, the landscape of both professional sailing and coaching has changed significantly - introducing SLOCOACH.

An interview with David Franks, the Fleet Captain of the Cowes Etchells Fleet.

Andrew “Dog” Palfrey joins Royal Ocean Racing Club and Louay Habib for the third episode of their lockdown series "Time Over Distance".

Whilst life has changed, we still have sailboats to think about and to tinker on.

Both the PKM and Brolga turnbuckles are excellently engineered, in that they allow the user to adjust the rig tension from the windward...

By Erik “Sparkles” Shampain, with assistance from Andrew “Dog” Palfrey. Erik is one of the world’s best professional crews on one-design...

Sailing.Dog’s Andrew Palfrey caught up with his old Star class helm, Iain Murray, in Cowes, England. Iain has an amazingly long and...

It has been my pleasure this spring to be involved with Hasso and Tina Plattner’s Phoenix two-boat TP52 program. So far we have done two...

Sailing.Dog’s Andrew Palfrey was being coached in the Etchells Class by Jud Smith at the recent Coral Reef Cup in Miami. Here we discuss...

Sailing.Dog's Andrew Palfrey was being coached in the Etchells Class by Jud Smith at the recent Coral Reef Cup in Miami. Not only is Jud...

In February 2019, we caught up for an engaging chat with International sailing icon, John Bertrand. John was prepping his Etchells class...

Now, for something completely different - I was contacted by the esteemed Editor of Sailing World Magazine, Dave Reed, late last year,...

In December 2018, members of the Etchells Class voted overwhelmingly in favour of changing some of the one-design class rules. At the...