Fastnet Race
October 7, 2016
This is ”The Auld Mug" which was produced for the 50th anniversary of the Fastnet. Owners Matt Brooks and Pam Rorke Levy met Nick Palmer up in Vancouver last week when they were giving a presentation at the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club. A friend of Palmer’s, who is part of the Royal Ocean Racing Club, […]
June 30, 2016
Dorade Owners, Matt Brooks and Pam Rorke Levy, have gifted the Dorade Cup to the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) to be used as a perpetual trophy for future Rolex Fastnet Races. The Dorade Cup will first be presented at the 2017 Rolex Fastnet Prize Giving to the event’s leading classic yacht. Organized by the […]
February 1, 2016
The 46th edition of the biennial Rolex Fastnet Race marked the bicentenary anniversary of the Royal Yacht Squadron, as well as 90 years since the Royal Ocean Racing Club was founded, following the Fastnet’s first edition, in 1925. Dorade was one of the 365 yachts that competed in the prestigious race from Cowes to the […]
October 6, 2015
Read "A race of two halves - Rolex Fastnet Race 2015" in the November issue of Seahorse Magazine! click images below for PDF
October 1, 2015
Dorade was the covergirl for this October's SAILING Magazine! Click image above to read the article.
September 29, 2015
We are so excited to be publishing the Spirit of Yachting “Rite of Passage” which highlights Rolex’s 2015 world-class events with a spotlight on the Rolex Fastnet Race. Watch the full video here and see interviews and footage of Dorade. Thank you Luca Ceccolini and the team over at IMG Media for such a beautiful […]
September 16, 2015
Dorade was featured in all three of the following CNN Mainsail episodes regarding the 2015 Rolex Fastnet Race: British Institution pulls off once in a lifetime event Iconic yacht club celebrates 200 years Inside the world’s most exclusive yacht club To view the individual videos, please follow the link below. Following the feature film, you will […]
September 9, 2015
with Stellar Performance in 2015 Rolex Fastnet Race Defying critics who said it couldn’t be done, Dorade has completed a four-year campaign to repeat all of the major ocean races she won in the 1930s, finishing up on the podium at the 2015 Rolex Fastnet Race, where she took second in IRC Class 4 and […]
August 23, 2015
The 2015 Rolex Fastnet Race Prizegiving in Plymouth, where the Dorade team took home the Iolaire Block, Coates Scholfield Trophy and The Sparkman & Stephens Trophy.
August 21, 2015
The Dorade team dockside yesterday after wrapping up the 2015 Rolex Fastnet. (Photo Credit ELWJ Yacht Photography)
August 20, 2015
Today, at 6:33 p.m. BST, Matt Brooks and his team aboard the 52-foot classic yacht Dorade finished the 2015 Rolex Fastnet Race in Plymouth with an elapsed time of four days, six hours, 13 minutes and 42 seconds. The team’s preliminary standings (pending the rest of finishes) are second in IRC 4 and eighth […]
August 20, 2015
Dorade is enjoying some champagne sailing today, holding second place in IRC 4 as the team heads into the last 26 miles of the 2015 Rolex Fastnet Race. The ideal conditions come after a rough last night where the 52-foot yawl drifted perilously close to an exclusion zone. RETURN TO BLUE WATER CAMPAIGN The Rolex […]
August 19, 2015
Dorade rounded Fastnet Rock and has a little over 200 nautical miles to go until finishing the Royal Ocean Racing Club 2015 Rolex Fastnet in Plymouth. The team's standing is currently third place in IRC 4. Track the 2015 Rolex Fastnet Fleet RETURN TO BLUE WATER CAMPAIGN The Rolex Fastnet Race is the […]
August 17, 2015
A Light Air Affair After a light-wind start off Cowes yesterday for the 2015 Rolex Fastnet, Matt Brooks and his team aboard the 52-foot classic yacht Dorade are now 170 miles into the 603-mile offshore race. Up until early morning today, the team held the IRC Class 4 lead, but strong currents off the southern […]
August 16, 2015
It was a slow-motion start for Dorade in the 2013 Rolex Fastnet, but the team is now off and currently leading the IRC 4 Class. The 52-foot yawl won the race in 1931 and 1933 at the hands of its innovative designers Olin and Rod Stephens. Follow her again this year with owner Matt Brooks at […]
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