The Team Dorade season in 2024 was unlike any other we’ve enjoyed since Matt and Pam bought Dorade in 2011, because Pam was not steering or part of active crew. We’d like to think she was watching from overhead, pointing out the occasional missed shift, but needless to say, it felt profoundly different to race Dorade without her aboard.
Long-time members of the crew were aboard regularly, as we raced in the New York Yacht Club Annual Regatta, the New York Yacht Club Cruise in Southern New England, and then did the August lineup of classic yacht events near Newport, Rhode Island. Race results can be read on Dorade’s results page.
Looking ahead to the 2025 season, Dorade turns 95 years old this spring. The narrow 52-foot yawl that redefined what an ocean racer should be in the 1930s—and aboard which Olin Stephens launched his design career—is staying close to Newport, Rhode Island, her home on the East Coast where she’s carefully laid up each fall and commissioned each spring.
The 2025 season is shaping up much like the 2024 season, beginning with June regattas highlighted by the 171st New York Yacht Club Annual Regatta. Dorade will sail the New York Yacht Club cruise in July, wending her way with the fleet from Marblehead to Newport, and then she’ll take a run at a series of three classic yacht regattas in Nantucket, Bristol, and Newport in late August.
Preliminary plans for 2026 indicate that Dorade may return to the Mediterranean to compete in a series of races with other classic yachts, as she last did in 2014.