Dorade Team
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 […]
September 9, 2015
Dorade Breaks Record Transat Across the Pond in 14 days 23 hours
August 25, 2015
We can't stop looking back on what a fun and exciting summer it has been. Here is the crew celebrating onboard Dorade on their way to Cowes after finishing the 2015 Transatlantic Race in Plymouth.
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 […]
August 15, 2015
The Rolex Fastnet Race starts tomorrow, August 16 and classic yacht Dorade is joining forces with grand prix racing machines Comanche and Lucky, and entering the event’s Team Challenge for the Martin Illinworth Trophy. The trio will make up the New York Yacht Club Team for the 603-mile ocean race. To win the challenge, the […]
August 14, 2015
Matt Brooks, owner/driver of the 52-foot yawl Dorade, was part of this morning’s Rolex Fastnet Press Conference at the RORC Cowes Clubhouse. Brooks was joined by a selection of 9 other competitors all sharing their observations about the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s biennial 600-mile race. Dorade excerpt from today’s press release follows: A slightly different […]