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Dogsail the book
Pete was clinically dead for three days. When he woke up, he decided to sail around Britain.
Seven years later, he set off from Suffolk with a 38kg Bernese Mountain Dog, a partner, who raced yachts and an AI chatbot that had never felt the sea move beneath it.
Dogsail is the story of their 1,800-mile circumnavigation: 46 legs, 130 days, and every headland, tidal gate, and harbour argument in between. It's a book about resilience, stubbornness, and what happens when you trust a machine with your passage plan but not your instincts.
The chatbot was confidently wrong about tides. The dog rated every harbour on a paw scale. And somewhere between Shotley and the Scillies, a crew that had no business working discovered that they did.
What you will find inside
The Voyage
A leg-by-leg account of circumnavigating Britain — the exhilarating landfalls, the terrifying crossings, and everything that went sideways in between.
31 Dogsail Tips
Hard-won, field-tested advice for sailing with dogs, sailing short-handed, and using AI onboard — the stuff no one tells you until it's too late.
The AI Experiment
What happens when you give an AI chatbot a seat at the chart table? Sometimes brilliance. Sometimes dangerous nonsense. Always entertaining.
Dog-Friendly Harbours
Svea's ratings of every marina and anchorage on the route — beaches, walkability, welcome, and the all-important shore-access question.
The Skipper
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Swedish Viking. Mostly house-trained.
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Starts engine checks before Jen opens one eye.
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Calm in a crisis. Annoyingly so.
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Survived a stroke, then chose sailing with Jen.
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Always has an arrival beer regardless of the time of arrival.
