Tie-Breaker at the Newport Classic Yacht Regatta
September 9, 2019
Light winds challenged the fleet in Newport, where Dorade traded firsts with the Herreshoff-designed Spartan.
First Again at the Herreshoff Classic
August 26, 2019
A breezy race on upper Narragansett Bay tested Team Dorade’s sailhandling skills and ultimately led to victory.
Dorade First Among Vintage Classics at Nantucket
August 19, 2019
The classic fleet moved offshore to compete in the two-day Nantucket Regatta and the wooden-boat classic, the Opera House Cup.
175th Anniversary Regatta, Day Five: Dorade Earns Second-Place
July 22, 2019
On the last day of a hard-fought week of racing in lighter and stronger winds, the series went to a worthy rival, the S&S 55 Santana.
175th Anniversary Regatta, Day Four: When Tonnage Takes Over
July 20, 2019
A close call at the start of the second race added intensity to a day of already-close competition with Santana.
175th Anniversary Regatta, Day Three: Rainy Day at Dorade Café
July 18, 2019
A wet day of northeasterlies set the stage for more tussling with Santana, this time amidst 12-Metre traffic. Coffee played a role, too.
175th Anniversary Regatta, Day Two: On the Right Side
July 17, 2019
Working the right side of the two upwind legs was a key to success on the regatta’s second day.
Dorade will compete in the 3570-mile race from Los Angeles to Tahiti, beginning May 28, 2020. The Transpac Tahiti Race has been raced 15 times between 1925 and 2012.
DORADE: S&S Design No. 7, 1929 – Minneford Yacht Yard, City Island, N.Y.
MISSION: Dorade was born to race in the open ocean. The goal for our current restoration and future sailing is to prepare Dorade to once again perform as a highly competitive ocean racer. To this end, I think it is essential that we work and consult with S&S, while continuing to rely on the advice, input and involvement of the current Dorade Team. By fostering active collaboration between Dorade’s original designer’s and her current keepers we will ensure that her history is honored and her lineage protected. We all acknowledge that Dorade is a very special craft, and all of us are committed to her preservation.
GALLERY
“The scenario must be as old as sport. Competition builds along certain lines which suit the participants and thus a norm is established. From year to year marginal advances are the rule. Then along comes someone, something of an outsider and more single-minded in his efforts to win, who seizes an opportunity that is obvious to him though unrecognized by the routine participants. The new player exploits a new way that offers a winning margin. I have wondered whether this is good for the sport, yet I recognize it as part of the game. It keeps competitors on their toes. In 1929 I sensed the opening.”
-Olin Stephens
RECENT CAMPAIGNS
Nine times in nine events. Team Dorade was on the podium every time during the summer of ’16. She competed throughout New England and earned first-place silverware at the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta and the Marblehead Corinthian Classic Yacht Regatta.
Sailing in the southern seas for the first time, Dorade competed in Australia in the second half of 2017. She sailed seven races off the south and east coasts, including the formidable Rolex Sydney Hobart Race in which she finished second in her division.
This classic series starts and ends with inshore regattas, sandwiching the Newport Bermuda Race. Dorade entered the Navigator’s Division and on the strength of solid scores in the first two events finished as low-point boat for the series when she won the finale in Bermuda.
Return to Blue Water 2013-2015
Following Dorade‘s restoration, the goal was to repeat all of the major ocean races the yacht had won in the 1930s, matching or bettering her original performance in the Transatlantic, Newport-Bermuda, Fastnet and TransPacific ocean races. The results were extraordinary.