Press
November 9, 2017
Grand old boat Dorade to finally tackle Sydney to Hobart race Click here to read the article
November 7, 2017
"With the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race an end game within sight, the 'Dorade Down Under' campaign remains in full swing; the 86-year-old Sparkman & Stephens classic yacht proving yet again that age is just a number." Dorade owners Pam Rorke Levy and Matt Brooks talk to event organizers about Dorade's involvement in the big race. Click […]
August 25, 2017
Most naval architects would be happy if just one of their yacht designs was considered a true classic. Yet the quiet, bespectacled Olin Stephens (1908-2008) drew the lines for scores of boats that sailors all know as pinnacle achievements of the art. Among the most famous Stephens creations are Ranger, the majestic J-classer co-designed with W. […]
August 22, 2017
Audi Hamilton Island Race Week: Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance By Tom Ehman/Sailing Illustrated Article Excerpt: What do you do next when, as a mountain guide you have led expeditions on some of the world’s toughest climbs and as a pilot you have broken several world aviation records? If you […]
May 4, 2017
Press release from the event organizers: The world's most successful yacht to compete at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2017 The world’s most successful ocean racing yacht over the past nine decades; the famous 16-metre long American yawl, Dorade, is to compete at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2017. No yacht in the long history of […]
December 7, 2016
The most current issue of Seahorse Magazine looks into the careers of three sailors — including Dorade’s builder Rod Stephens — who helped shape the world of modern ocean racing. Click here to read the full article “Hard Sailing Habits” by John Rousmaniere.
September 2, 2016
Mystic Seaport has done an excellent online exhibit on Olin J. Stephens II and his embodiment of the Cruising Club of America. The piece highlights his success with the 52-foot yawl Dorade. Click here to check out the full exhibit
August 11, 2016
Click here to read the full article on Sonny, Dorade and America at the seventeenth annual Castine Classic Yacht Regatta:
August 5, 2016
Weekend of classic boat races begins in Castine CASTINE — The Castine Classic Yacht Regatta, which opens a weekend of classic sailboat racing Downeast, got under way Wednesday afternoon with harbor visits from two of the world’s most famous yachts, Dorade and the schooner America. That was followed by a symposium hosted by Douglas Adkins, […]
July 28, 2016
Throwback Thursday to August 31, 1941 when Dorade was featured in Santa Cruz Sentinel.
March 16, 2016
Dorade Adored: San Francisco Couple Restores Legendary Classic By Kara Hugglestone/Sail Couture Classic sailing yachts are romantic things, equal parts beauty, elegance, wood, metal, and fabric. Some achieve a mythical place in history, but few are as legendary as Dorade. First as a darling of the 1930s and again today thanks to San Francisans Matt […]
