Dorade
  • ABOUT
    • Team Dorade
    • Specs
    • Contact
  • HISTORY
    • Past Campaigns
  • RESULTS
  • MEDIA
    • Press
    • Photos
    • Video
  • BLOG
  • ABOUT
    • Team Dorade
    • Specs
    • Contact
  • HISTORY
    • Past Campaigns
  • RESULTS
  • MEDIA
    • Press
    • Photos
    • Video
  • BLOG
July 18, 2019  |  By Dorade Team

175th Anniversary Regatta, Day Three: Rainy Day at Dorade Café

After a windless two-hour postponement ashore, Dorade headed up Narragansett Bay into a building northeasterly breeze that promised an afternoon of good competition in intermittent downpours. Crewmember John Burnham describes the view from onboard.

This was a new racing area for us, about a mile west of the north end of Conanicut Island, with a strong ebb tide early. Two four–legged windward-leeward races were held, and adding to the usual challenges, we had the fleet of Classic 12-Metres starting five minutes behind and gradually overtaking us. These beautiful yachts from the ‘30s and the ‘50s ran some interference for us on the first run, slowing down our rival, Santana. That helped us stay in front for three legs and finish a mere boatlength behind—close enough to win the race by 13 seconds on corrected time.

The 12s returned the favor in the second race after we led early again but let Santana by on the run. On the second beat, both of us approached on the port-tack layline, and Santana was able to flip around ahead of the starboard-tack pack while we had to duck about 250 feet worth of former America’s Cuppers.

Afterguard steering and trimming on Dorade
Left to right, Matt Brooks, Greg Stewart, John Harrington, and John Hayes guide Dorade under spinnaker toward Newport Harbor after a third day of New York Yacht Club 175th Anniversary Regatta racing.

Our final results were 1-3 for the day, Santana finished 2-2, and the fastest boat in our class, Spartan, scored a 3-1. Through three days of racing, we hold a 1-point lead over Santana, with Spartan 2 points further back in third.

A key to our continued success today was Ali, a last-minute sub for Malcolm, who tailed a whole lot of jib sheet and learned several of the other jobs us mid-deck scramblers do. She admitted it was a steep learning curve, coming off Swan 42s and IC37s, but the Team Dorade consensus was that she fit in well.

One of Dorade’s secret weapons was unveiled during the long interlude between races when Mike fired up the coffeemaker. I was so absorbed in the warmth of a full cup of strong black coffee during a particularly heavy downpour that only as I finished it did I realize Greg, who was steering, and I were the only ones left on deck. Everyone else was relaxing below in the Dorade Café.

Racing ended late and we flew the spinnaker on the long downwind leg back to Newport (Dorade sails faster than she motors in most conditions). As the rain continued to fall, Matt unveiled another feature of the café, breaking into the Dorade wine locker to warm up the crew.

Usually once tied to the dock, Dorade is carefully hosed down and her varnish is shammied to a shine, but with rain still falling, there was no need for a washdown today.

Tomorrow is Friday, the penultimate day of the regatta, and it will likely be dryer, hotter and just as tight boat for boat on the racecourse. Here is the link to the results to date.

Previous Story175th Anniversary Regatta, Day Two: On the Right Side
Next Story175th Anniversary Regatta, Day Four: When Tonnage Takes Over

Follow Us

doradesailing1929

192

doradesailing1929

View

Mar 26

Open
“I was lucky: I had a goal. As far back as I can “I was lucky: I had a goal. As far back as I can remember I wanted to design fast boats,” writes Olin Stephens in the opening words of his autobiography, All This and Sailing Too, which we heartily recommend. Today you can read another take on Olin and his brother Rod in our latest blog post, at the link in our bio—a look back at the two-part feature story on the Stephen Brothers written by Morton M. Hunt for The New Yorker's September 1957 issue. In this excerpt, we pick up the story with the publication of Olin’s first design in Yachting magazine and the beginning of the partnership that became the pre-eminent yacht design firm of the mid-20th century, Sparkman & Stephens. A yacht named Dorade was soon to follow…

[📸: Unknown]

#doradeyacht #classicyacht #olinstephens @sparkman_and_stephens

“I was lucky: I had a goal. As far back as I can remember I wanted to design fast boats,” writes Olin Stephens in the opening words of his autobiography, All This and Sailing Too, which we heartily recommend. Today you can read another take on Olin and his brother Rod in our latest blog post, at the link in our bio—a look back at the two-part feature story on the Stephen Brothers written by Morton M. Hunt for The New Yorker's September 1957 issue. In this excerpt, we pick up the story with the publication of Olin’s first design in Yachting magazine and the beginning of the partnership that became the pre-eminent yacht design firm of the mid-20th century, Sparkman & Stephens. A yacht named Dorade was soon to follow…

[📸: Unknown]

#doradeyacht #classicyacht #olinstephens @sparkman_and_stephens
...

doradesailing1929

View

Mar 22

Open
Racing in rough water at Antigua in 2012. [📸: Racing in rough water at Antigua in 2012.

[📸: Tim Wright]

#doradeyacht #classicyacht #caribbeansailing #antigua @sparkman_and_stephens

Racing in rough water at Antigua in 2012.

[📸: Tim Wright]

#doradeyacht #classicyacht #caribbeansailing #antigua @sparkman_and_stephens
...

doradesailing1929

View

Mar 19

Open
Team Dorade celebrates winning 1st overall in the Team Dorade celebrates winning 1st overall in the 2013 Transpac at the trophy ceremony. A stunning achievement as part of her "Return to Blue Water Campaign," the crew took to the podium 77 years after Dorade won the race for the first time. 

[📸: @sharon_green_ultimatesailing ]

#doradeyacht #classicyacht #transpacificrace #transpac @sparkman_and_stephens @transpacrace

Team Dorade celebrates winning 1st overall in the 2013 Transpac at the trophy ceremony. A stunning achievement as part of her "Return to Blue Water Campaign," the crew took to the podium 77 years after Dorade won the race for the first time.

[📸: @sharon_green_ultimatesailing ]

#doradeyacht #classicyacht #transpacificrace #transpac @sparkman_and_stephens @transpacrace
...

doradesailing1929

View

Mar 15

Open
Lucie, a 1931 Six-Metre built for Briggs Cunningha Lucie, a 1931 Six-Metre built for Briggs Cunningham by the Nevins Yard on City Island, was the first of Matt and Pam's fleet of classic yachts. Designed by Clinton Crane, here is Lucie sailing upwind to 2nd place at the Newport Classic Yacht Regatta in 2016.

[📸: @silkenphoto ]

#doradeyacht #classicyacht #lucie #sixmetre #ncyr #clintoncrane #classicyachtregatta #IYRS @classicyachtoa

Lucie, a 1931 Six-Metre built for Briggs Cunningham by the Nevins Yard on City Island, was the first of Matt and Pam's fleet of classic yachts. Designed by Clinton Crane, here is Lucie sailing upwind to 2nd place at the Newport Classic Yacht Regatta in 2016.

[📸: @silkenphoto ]

#doradeyacht #classicyacht #lucie #sixmetre #ncyr #clintoncrane #classicyachtregatta #IYRS @classicyachtoa
...

Load More...
Dorade
Web Design by risingT