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January 11, 2013  |  By Dorade Team

Big Year for Dorade

Lee cloths fitted again
Rotten wood discovered-with-a-knife
rotten-hatches
nice-dove-joints
life-rings
life-rings-1
Hatch repaired
Hatch with new corner pieces fitted
Hatch with rot filled-in-and-corners-fitted
new-mast-dispays
ssb-insulators
SSB wire conduit
bermuda-pull-pit-back-on
wire-gland-fabricated-for-sat-antenna
sat-dome-mount
Fuel fill pipe inspected-for-leaks
Hatch repairs
Hatch repair dry fit
lots-of-work-on-deck

The year is already getting away from me and it seems like I was only on holiday a few days ago. 2013 is a very big year for Dorade with our racing schedule, constant improvements, delivery back from Hawaii in August, Americas cup in September, Breaking her down to transport back to Rhode island before putting her back together to go to the Caribbean for the winter. I should not be short of things to do!

So far this year we have been finishing off the repairs to the butterfly hatches which now look great and should be finished off tomorrow or Monday. Our team member and navigator Matt Wachowiz was out last week for a few days working out our navigation system, communications and software set up. Matt now has a very good grip on Dorade’s equipment and had a lot of great input and knowledge to bring into the program. We raced in the GGYC midwinter race on Saturday, unfortunately the very light conditions did not suit us being a heavy old displacement boat, we found ourselves stopped a couple of times in 2 knots of wind. The lighter more modern boats had the advantage on this occasion and it was not our day. As always a great crew made it enjoyable anyway and we finished just before the rain started.

We now have the Bermuda pulpit back on and are starting to set the boat up into an offshore mode so that it doesn’t all have to happen at once when the real racing starts in March. New lighter spinnaker poles are on the list of things to get built as the current ones are very heavy and do not operate as well as the more modern set ups. New blocks have arrived to replace the wooden blocks; this will give us increased reliability and reduced friction. Sail fabrics are being discussed with North sails at the moment to give us the best chance in the Trans Pac race. There are at least a couple of options but we want to maintain the classic look with white sails. Things to think about are stretch characteristics, materials, and weight, durability and radial cuts or not.

I feel like the work list is finally starting to get smaller and I will be able to concentrate on some more routine checking and servicing before long. The major stuff is almost out of the way but old wooden boats are a labor of love and I am sure this is not the end of it.

Ben

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

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Owner Matt Brooks and bowman Steve Foraste kick ba Owner Matt Brooks and bowman Steve Foraste kick back as the wind eases off in the otherwise windy 2012 Newport Bermuda Race. In retrospect, Dorade's sixth in Class that year (St. David's Lighthouse Division) was a warmup for the 2014 race in which she finished second. The race was part of the “Return to Blue Water” campaign, Matt and Pam's effort to repeat all of the major ocean races Dorade had won in the 1930s, including the Transatlantic, Newport Bermuda, Fastnet and TransPacific ocean races.

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Owner Matt Brooks and bowman Steve Foraste kick back as the wind eases off in the otherwise windy 2012 Newport Bermuda Race. In retrospect, Dorade's sixth in Class that year (St. David's Lighthouse Division) was a warmup for the 2014 race in which she finished second. The race was part of the “Return to Blue Water” campaign, Matt and Pam's effort to repeat all of the major ocean races Dorade had won in the 1930s, including the Transatlantic, Newport Bermuda, Fastnet and TransPacific ocean races.

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