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April 7, 2015
Team members are learning RYA/ISAF Offshore Safety Course, where everybody had lots of fun and learnt water survival. Many thanks to Paul Cunningham from Southcoasting Navigators!
March 31, 2015
Olin Stephens's Radical Yacht The Wall Street Journal, November 2006 story by G. Bruce Knecht in PDF.
March 30, 2015
Across the Atlantic in Dorade (1931 Transatlantic Race in Dorade) By: John D. Fox Able Seaman Member of the Port Watch
March 25, 2015
Greg Stewart, Matt, and I arrived here in Newport just in time for a new dusting of snow in Joe Loughborough's yard, where Dorade has spent the winter. Hannah, Nick, Shae Weston and a team of painters and carpenters have been working on several projects simultaneously, most documented here in other blog entries and in […]
March 18, 2015
The countdown is on and the final pieces of the puzzle are lining up nicely. It's not always easy to arrive at definitive decisions when the conversation is spread across thousands of miles and multiple time zones but I think we are there. The end of this week marks the first major clean up as […]
March 10, 2015
Despite having heaters on through the days we have been up against it trying to encourage paint and varnish to dry. With a six week spell of sub zero conditions, it takes a long time for things to kick. For safety reasons we can't have the big heater running over night which means only about […]
March 9, 2015
Lot #8 - St. Francis Sailing Foundation - Night with the Stars Dinner & Auction - Tuesday March 17th If you haven't already signed up to attend, it is not too late. Attached is a video feature of Live Auction Lot #8: Foulies & Tuxedos - Be A Part of Yachting History Join 2015 Yachtsman […]
March 5, 2015
Full-rigged models of Carina and Dorade will be added to the Club's unrivaled model collection this spring. Club Nights at 44th Street (March 26) and Harbour Court (March 21) will enable members to celebrate two of the most accomplished racing yachts in offshore sailing. The models are being donated to the Club by members Jonathan […]
March 2, 2015
We are getting close to that critical 'one month to go' point. The decks are in the final stages of sanding, the bottom is all faired and ready for painting and the topside paintwork is prepped ready for re spray in damaged areas. Last week also saw the arrival of the interior parts for the […]
February 28, 2015
Camp Four Winds * Westward Ho is a traditional summer camp for boys and girls ages 7 to 18 on Orcas Island in Washington State’s San Juan Islands. Dorade was used as the camp boat for many years.
February 27, 2015
Photos of new Stem Fitting fabricated by Teak Ackman of Seven Star Marine Engineering. [nggallery id=208]
February 20, 2015
If January went by quickly, February has disappeared in a flash. Multiple projects are in progress and while we are very much still on track we are starting to get to the stage where wiggle room is getting tighter. So far so good though and the biggest project we have going on at the moment […]