Racing


July 28, 2015

Dorade along with the rest of the St. Francis Yacht Club Team at the Royal Yacht Squadron for its Bicentenary International Regatta. Racing was cancelled yesterday due to continual strong winds on the Solent, so the first day of the regatta kicked off today. Stay tuned for a full race report this evening. For more information on the regatta, […]

July 11, 2015

The last of these weather systems are over us now and have been for the past eight hours or so. The guys have all put in a huge effort to try and push Dorade as hard as possible, with the hopes of minimizing the mileage loss against the other boats in front and behind us. […]

July 6, 2015

From: Boat Captain Ben Galloway Monday Morning, July 6, 2015 The day before yesterday (Saturday, July 4) was one of my most memorable days of sailing ever.  Zach and I started our watch at 0600 surfing the waves in between 18 and 23 knots of wind and under an a lot of sails (A4, spin […]

July 5, 2015

Rod and Olin Stephens' fastest recorded speed on Dorade in the 1931 Transatlantic Race was11.4 knots, set when their father, Rod Stephens, Sr., was driving. In the 2013 Transpacific Yacht Race, Ben Galloway set what we think was the all-time speed record aboard Dorade of 15.9 knots (unless one of our followers knows better -- […]

June 20, 2015

After the Rolex Fastnet in August, the 52-foot yawl Dorade will have sailed approximately 18,000 nautical miles in total during the Return to Blue Water campaign. If you include the miles that Dorade will be in transit, via boat or truck, it will be a total of 32,000 miles. To put it in perspective, the […]
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