Dog's Blog

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

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

Coaching report from a day on the Solent with the Cowes Etchells fleet

After posting some pictures on Facebook of a new jib-sheeting set up on my Etchells, I received a question I thought I would share.

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.

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

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...

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

Toward the end of summer in 2018, I was contacted by my good friend Skip Dieball of the USA. Skip won the 2015 Etchells Worlds as...