Dorade Team
October 17, 2025
We’re thrilled to announce that Return to Blue Water, written by Pam Rorke Levy, is now available for purchase.
March 7, 2025
For Team Dorade, the 2024 racing season was challenging emotionally, but the 52-foot yawl still found her way to the podium again and again.
January 4, 2025
Pam Rorke Levy, keeper and shaper of the Dorade story, passed away on January 4, 2024. Her spirit remains with us.
July 19, 2024
Team Dorade sailed in two regattas at the beginning of June in Newport, and our favorite 94-year-old yawl earned silverware in both events.
December 8, 2023
We learned recently that Dorade's dinghy once moonlighted successfully as a racing yacht herself.
June 24, 2023
Opening the 2023 season with a win in the shortened Around the Island Race, Dorade went on to finish a close second in the buoy racing portion of the regatta
May 25, 2023
Team Dorade looks back at the first restoration of Dorade with the man who put several Sparkman & Stephens designs back in fighting trim
March 22, 2023
In a two-part magazine feature story, Morton Hunt tells the remarkable story of Olin and Rod Stephens rise to success, a story starring our favorite 52' yawl
January 29, 2023
Vintage yachts deserve vintage silverware! At least that's what the New York Yacht Club decided when they began repurposing these extraordinary trophies in recent years.
December 31, 2022
Dorade and her veteran team dealt with their share of challenges, but made the most of the opportunities of racing throughout New England
June 2, 2022
The second chapter of Dorade's career began in the mid-'30s when she was sold to James Flood of San Francisco
November 12, 2021
Last summer's sailing wasn't always about winning on the competitive New England circuit, but Team Dorade was pumped up to get out there racing again.
June 28, 2021
Recovering from a 5th in the first race, Team Dorade found its way to the podium in a competitive classics regatta.
June 22, 2021
Victory in the country's oldest regatta was sweet but simply sailing Dorade with a crew of long-time friends was even sweeter.
February 18, 2021
This winter's feature projects are a more perfect bottom and a complete new Harken winch package to give Dorade an edge on the racecourse.