All Else Confusion

Lately, I've become addicted to logic problems from a book entitled England's Best Logic Problems,102 Logic Puzzles Imported From England. Here's one I came across yesterday:

Three Men in Five Boats

The Malt Shovel is a rather nice pub on the bank of Ringworth Broad, one of the Norfolk Broads; it's much favoured by the sailing fraternity, and the last time I was there five sailing dinghies tied up at the pub's landing stage, crewed by three men and two women and each also carrying a dog. From the clues below, can you work out the name of each dingy, the name of the person sailing it, and the name and breed of the dog on board?

NB: Men are Colin Beatty, Edmund Drake and Gavin Fisher, and women are Gillian Hood and Moira Nelson.

Dinghies are Dolphin, Goblin, Nomad, Rebecca, and Wild Goose.

Dogs are named Boodie, Fido, Joey, Prince, and Sparky and are a bulldog, corgi, fox terrier, labrador, and whippet.

1. Boodie the whippet was a passenger in the dinghy sailed by one of the men.

2. Gillian Hood's dinghy was called the Dolphin; while I was chatting to her, her dog played with the fox terrier.

3. Edmund Drake's canine companion was a corgi.

4. Gavin Fisher's dog was called Prince.

5. The Nomad wasn't Colin Beatty's dinghy, and Joey wasn't the labrador.

6. Fido travelled in the Goblin, which wasn't Moira Nelson's sailing dinghy.

7. It was the bulldog that arrived at the Malt Shovel with the man on the Wild Goose.

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