Dorade Team
July 24, 2013
Not everyone else has finished yet, but it is certain that Dorade has won the whole shebang on corrected time, 77 years after she last did it in 1936. Which ain’t too shabby for a boat built in 1930. She bested her 1936 elapsed time by over a day and covered the 2,225-mile course from […]
July 24, 2013
Modern sailing racing yachts tend to have plumb bows and broad flat sterns. The Transpacific Yacht Race, a 2,225 nautical miles race from Los Angelos to Honolulu, Hawaii, has been dominated for several decades by these lightweight, high speed, sailing “sleds.” Remarkably, almost unbelievably, this year’s Transpac was won not by a modern speedster, but […]
July 24, 2013
HONOLULU -- Dorade, a 1929-built Sparkman & Stephens-designed 52-foot wooden yawl owned by Matt Brooks, was named first overall on corrected time in the 2013 Transpacific Yacht Race -- better known as Transpac. Transpacific Yacht Club, organizer of the 47th biennial competition, reported that Dorade finished the 2,225-mile Point Fermin-to-Diamond Head race at 3:32 a.m. […]
July 23, 2013
The 1936 ocean racer proves her mettle with her second win, 77 years later The Bay Area's Dorade, a narrow-beamed wooden boat built in 1930, repeated history this week, winning the TransPacific Race from Long Beach to Hawaii this week for the second time in the past century.Winning on corrected time of 132 hours, 20 […]
July 23, 2013
With about one fourth the fleet still making their final approaches into the finish in today’s light winds, the windows of opportunities have now been closed for anyone to challenge the top three overall finishers in the 2013 Transpac. On the strength of starting in perfect wind conditions, carrying these through the race, and with […]
July 22, 2013
While a new elapsed-time record wasn't set, the 47th TransPac has proven to be one of the more interesting and exciting races to Hawaii in years. Overall honors went to the classic S&S 52 Dorade, which was built in 1930 and had previously won overall TransPac honors 77 years ago in 1936. Dorade is owned […]
July 22, 2013
Nelson/Marek Yacht Design, Inc. (N/M) today announced that N/M refit DORADE wins 2013 Transpac overall, PYEWACKET finishes second and other N/M optimized designs take top places. Dorade, the 1930 design that catapulted Olin Stephens career, is a yacht that N/M has been involved with since 2007. In 2010 N/M was heavily involved with her 2010 […]
July 22, 2013
It is a vanishingly small group of people alive today who've had the honor to race Dorade in a major ocean race. On a personal level I'd like to thank them because every one of them are the caliber of person to whom I entrust my life. While we might often have people we really […]
July 22, 2013
Historic Yacht First Won in 1936 -- Now Oldest Craft Ever to Race and Win TransPac It's official, Dorade has won the 2013 TransPac on corrected time, beating out its closest competitor, Pyewacket, by two hours, 30 minutes, and 26 seconds. "They said we'd never make it and if we did it would take four […]
July 22, 2013
Honolulu, Hawaii (July 20, 2013) – Over its long history since first being sailed in 1906, the 2225-mile LA-Honolulu Transpac race has attracted a rich diversity of boat types, and among the nine additional entries that today crossed the finish line today at Diamond Head, there were two outstanding examples of the opposite ends of […]
July 22, 2013
The Transpacific Yacht Race from California to Hawaii is one of the most prestigious yacht races in the world. The race is held every other year and this afternoon the legendary sailing yacht Dorade sailed into Honolulu as the overall winner. The 52-foot boat was built in 1930 making it the oldest boat to ever […]
July 21, 2013
Built for the same purpose but separated by decades of racing technology, two of the boats claiming prized positions in this year's Transpacific Yacht Race provided a striking contrast as they sat in neighboring docks. Lending Club, a powerful trimaran engineered to speed across the ocean, made a strong run at the course record and […]
July 20, 2013
Strange weather has persisted in the last half of the 2225-mile LA-Honolulu Transpac race, with a low pressure deepening between Hawaii and the Pacific High to the north, making for vacuum-like conditions in the “normal” northerly approach to the finish. The Sleds and TP 52’s, which were the third start a week ago Saturday (July […]
July 20, 2013
The 83-year-old ocean thoroughbred was a winner before she started this year's Transpac. Then she sailed to Hawaii in 12 days. I’ve got to hand it to Matt Brooks for his determination, his persistence, and his fundamental belief in Dorade and the easily driven hull shape given to her by young designer, Olin Stephens, in […]
July 20, 2013
It’s not over yet, but due to this atypical weather pattern the S&S 52-foot wood yawl Dorade will likely win the race overall in corrected time, a repeat of her victory in 1936. Impeccably renovated and maintained, her victory may be aesthetically pleasing for the classic boat crowd but will not be a fluke: with […]