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Yacht Style: Dorade

• By Angus Phillips, Photos by Cory Silken
• Updated: July 24, 2013

Any sailor worth his boots would be giddy to stroll down the waterfront of historic Marblehead, Massachusetts, while chasing down a promised berth on Dorade , the most famous wooden racing yacht of the 20th century. She’s the slender beauty that in the early 1930s launched Olin and Rod Stephens to half a century at the pinnacle of American yachting: Olin’s first offshore design, done at the tender age of 22; the springboard for the design and brokerage firm Sparkman & Stephens; and a smashing competitive success for two young brothers whose triumphs in her forever altered the American yachting landscape.

Ridiculed by the old guard as too slim and lightly built to go to sea, Dorade stomped all comers through the Great Depression and beyond, winning from one coast of the United States to the other and from England to Hawai’i. She won the Transatlantic Race of 1931, the Transpac, the Bermuda Race, and the Fastnet, and she remains a seagoing icon—”On one hand, lovely and dainty, and on the other, purposeful and determined” writes Douglas D. Adkins in his excellent new book, Dorade: the History of an Ocean Racing Yacht . “There is no other racing yacht with her enduring fame and public presence.”

I was lucky to score a two-day gig crewing on Dorade at the Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge in August 2012, but no one bothered to say exactly where she’d be. I’d never laid eyes on her, and I’d only been to Marblehead a time or two. But at 52 feet of gleaming wooden perfection, she shouldn’t be hard to find. I parked the truck, shouldered my seabag, and headed for the most prominent place in town, the public landing, and there she lay, pretty as kiss my hand, in fine company. __

Dorade bobbed lightly at the fuel dock between a sleek, black, 50-foot Q boat called Nor’easter and an immaculately restored Herreshoff gaffer called Nellie . Nearby, the towering, fully restored, turn-of-the-century New York Yacht Club 50 Spartan and Donald Tofias’ 76-foot Herreshoff replica Wild Horses tugged at their tethers, all polished to a shine. In this crowd, Dorade didn’t even stand out. She simply held her own in a dignified way.

Her newest owner, real-estate developer Matt Brooks of San Francisco, spent a small fortune refurbishing the 82-year-old yawl after buying her from Edgar Cato in 2010, and it shows. Brooks was supposed to be aboard for the Panerai but couldn’t make it because of family issues. A pity, as he’d assembled a crackerjack crew to sail against 67 other yachts of various sizes and vintages, from creaky old gaffers to sparkling replicas.

Brooks brought in Brad Read, the executive director of Sail Newport, a nonprofit located in Newport, Rhode Island, and a great small-boat racer, to steer, and a cast of grizzled veterans, mostly from around Marblehead, to pull the strings. Bob Hood, son of Ted, trimmed headsails, for example, and around-the-world adventurer Cam Lewis’ young son Max was the Nipper, assigned to tend the mizzen. Max greeted me with a frosty Heineken to chase away the road grime and a crew uniform to parade around town in. Good one, Max!

| |Designed in 1929 and launched the following year, Dorade today still maintains an active racing schedule, thanks to a loving owner and a thorough refit.|

The regatta format was two days of pursuit racing. Over the course of about an hour, the Race Committee would send smaller boats off first and bigger ones last, with the hopes that this would avoid any pileups at the starting line and that they’d all fetch up at the harbor finish in a colorful mass after 17 miles of sun-kissed sailing. It’s all about the spectacle at regattas like this, and it worked as planned, though the really good convergences were out on the course at government turning marks, where beauties overtook beauties overtaking beauties. By good fortune, southwest sea breezes held up all weekend under a classic New England sky, that unpredictable panoply of towering cumulus, rolling gray weather fronts, and brilliant bursts of sun.

For sure it was thrilling to be aboard one of the handsomest boats in America, yet it was hard to keep your mind on the teak and varnished oak, pine, and mahogany beneath your feet or the straining canvas aloft as a steady array of stars and starlets crossed your bow or fell astern. They say even the old dog quivers when he sees the quail; if you love boats and the sea and your heart still works, it will surely flutter at the sound of a bow wave chuckling under the meat-cleaver bow of an old wooden 6-Meter, 8-Meter, or 12-Meter, a dart-thin S Boat, or a one-off gaffer, close aboard. And so it did.

As we made our way to the starting line that first day, the master of Dorade ‘s latest refit walked us through some simple maneuvers. Greg Stewart, a partner at Nelson-Marek Yacht Design in San Diego, was hired by Brooks to update and upgrade Dorade over the 2011 offseason.

A 6-Meter owner himself, Stewart sails on Dorade whenever he can and will fly across the country to do so. He oversaw a ton of work to bring her back, including 21 new bronze winches; a new Yanmar diesel tucked away in an old bin that used to store coal; a new rudder; new offset folding Gori prop and shaft; epoxy-and-spruce main and mizzen masts and booms; a new oak stem; a massive, custom bronze stem fitting; state-of-the-art electronics below (all hidden in the original mahogany woodwork); the list goes on.

Since many of the crew were new to the boat, Stewart wanted to show us how to do such basic things as setting the spinnaker pole, changing headsails, and the like. Crew boss Nate Burke had sent me up forward to work the mast, along with a strapping local named Jim Golden, and we were duly attentive. “I’m going to show you how to take the spinnaker pole forward,” said Stewart, a bespectacled engineer, who assigned me to one end of the pole and Golden to the other, then had someone else clip on and tend the topping lift so that when we brought the gleaming wooden stick forward, it would be fully supported, just in case some oaf stumbled or tripped.

The point was clear—when you’re taking grandma’s burled walnut hutch upstairs to its new spot in the master bedroom, you don’t just grab it and go. Stewart knew he couldn’t demonstrate how to do everything; he just wanted to make clear that this wasn’t somebody’s battered J/24, and every move required thought and care.

His point was reinforced as we hoisted sail and set off on our first practice run through the fleet while tacking, jibing, winging the big genoa out on the pole for dead downwind, or cracking off to a close reach. The wind piped up as Read spun her upwind, and Dorade , with a narrow beam of just over 10 feet, bent to the breeze and dipped her sparkling toerail in the brine. “High side,” the skipper ordered from the cockpit, encouraging mid-deck hands to put their idle weight to use as ballast. I stuck my legs over the gunwale out of habit. “Oh, no, no, no,” chided bowman Tommy Tompkins, who’d sailed the old-timers many times before. “Legs in. They ruin the sheer line for the photographers!”

The racing that followed over the next two days is jumbled in my mind. When you work the middle of a racing boat, it’s like being a lineman on a football team—you’re in the heart of it but out of the loop. Your job is to keep your head down and not mess up. You can find out later how you did. There were murmurings in the cockpit as Read, Stewart, and Burke conjured which way to go and how to get there, and occasional urgent directives came forward as they prepared to tack or jibe or change headsails, but for the most part, Golden and I were blithely oblivious to the big picture and keenly focused on not scratching the varnish or breaking anything.

| |Also gracing the classic-yacht scene in New England of late has been Spartan , a recently restored Herreshoff-designed New York Yacht Club 50.|

But oh, for a camera. Both days we were overtaken spectacularly by Spartan , 72 feet overall, a Nantucket dowager fresh from her own three-year refit and flying clouds of canvas from a towering topmast and gaff. I think even the darkly competitive Read looked up from the tiller to admire Spartan whooshing by. Then came Wild Horses , with paid skipper Faraday Martin at the helm, steering because her boss, Tofias, had shattered his knee in a fall on the boat a week earlier; and Valiant , the 12-Meter that was Olin Stephens’ big flop in an otherwise brilliant career designing seven U.S. winners of the America’s Cup. Nobody likes to get passed in a race, but if you have to suffer through it, this was the way to go.

So, as the football lineman asks when the cloud of dust clears and he rejoins the huddle, how’d we do? Not so great. The scratch sheet says Dorade wound up 14th of 68, well behind local legend Dave Curtis’ way-too-modern Taylor 38, Rival , the winner. Second was Valiant . Spartan came seventh, and Wild Horses , eighth. There was the usual muted grumbling about handicaps at the Corinthian Yacht Club, where awards were handed out by Nathaniel Herreshoff’s grandson, Halsey Herreshoff. Halsey sailed with Dennis Conner on Stephens’ final winning America’s Cup 12-Meter, Freedom , in 1980.

Dorade was off the next day to Rhode Island, sailing under the careful guidance of paid skipper Ben Galloway and Laurel Gaudet. There they’d pack her for transit to the West Coast, where she’ll be reassembled and readied to grace the America’s Cup summer in San Francisco and do the Transpac back to Hawai’i. Under Brooks’ aggressive plan, she’ll be up and down the U.S. West Coast, redoing events she won in her prime, then head to Newport, Rhode Island, for the start of the Transatlantic Race in 2015. Dorade is in respectful hands.

For two nights I shared a room with Stewart at the Eastern Yacht Club, overlooking the harbor, but the last night I felt compelled to sleep on Dorade , in one of the tiny “coffin berths” that Rod and Olin occupied on their historic Transatlantic Race 80 years before, when they beat the fleet to England by two days and shocked the world, winning themselves a New York ticker-tape parade when they came home.

They built folks smaller back then. I wedged my beefy shoulders into the little bunk and wondered how a fellow could hang on in heavy seas, bolstered only by a slender bunk board. But sleep came easily, and when I got up in the middle of the night, as geezers do, and slipped silently to the transom, to perch there on that impossibly tiny, shiny platform and stare down the moonlit length of the seagoing dart that took Olin Stephens to glory those many years ago and hear the little waves lapping at her sides, there was no place on Earth I’d rather have been. Not one.

Angus Phillips is a CW_ editor at large._

This article first appeared in teh July 2013 issue of Cruising World .

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Dorade: The History of an Ocean Racing Yacht by Douglas D. Adkins

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Finally, the written history of the most famous ocean racing yacht of the Twentieth Century. The Capstan Press announces the publication of the Limited Edition of " Dorade , The History of an Ocean Racing Yacht", the definitive account of Olin Stephen's breakthrough design which influenced all concepts of ocean racing during the 1930's , 1940 and 1950's and whose impact in still seen in yacht architecture today. Lavishly illustrated with unique materials in a custom candy box, the Limited Edition of 250 numbered and signed copies include line drawings, an historic leather bookmark and a museum quality photograph of the great racer.  more »

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Douglas Adkins' superb biography of the ocean racing yawl Dorade reads like a modern-day retelling of the Icarus legend. But it is a retelling with dramatic differences. For one thing, Adkins' account is as factual and as truthful as careful and extensive research can make it. For a second, it is not about an impetuous kid flying too close to the sun. Rather, it begins with two wonderfully able and self-assured young brothers—Olin and Rod Stephens Jr.—who not only fly, in a yachting context, as close to the sun as man has ever known, but circle it repeatedly, successfully, and in seeming defiance of the laws of gravity. more »

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In this feature, The Log looks at notable boats — sail and power — that continue to turn heads in Southern California harbors.

Boat name: Dorade

Length:  52.56 ft.

Draft: 8.27 ft.

Beam: 10.33 ft.

Year Built:   1930

  The Back Story: Dorade, an 87-year-old sailboat, is not just a classic – she is an antique. Olin Stephens, at the age of 21, designed the sailboat in 1929. The construction of the sailing yacht was completed in 1930 with the guidance of brother, Rod Stephens. The Stephens brothers went on to race Dorade in the 1931 Transatlantic Race against wealthy yachtsmen and celebrated sailors. The two brothers won the race aboard Dorade from Newport, Rhode Island to Plymouth, England with more than a two-day lead. Her conquests continued with additional wins in the sailing circuit in 1933 and 1936. Dorade still has her original name and continues to amaze in sailing competitions around the world.

  A Campaign for a Champion: Matt Brooks and Pam Rorke Levy purchased Dorade in 2010 and spent a year restoring the Sparkman & Stephens yacht to her original condition. Brooks and Levy then started a “Return to Blue Water” campaign. The goal was to have repeat performances from the 1930s. The campaign exceeded their expectations in the 2013 Transpacific Yacht Race with improved race times from 77 years ago. Dorade also triumphed in the 2014 Newport to Bermuda Race. Brooks and Levy launched the “Dorade Down Under” campaign in which Dorade is now racing in a series in Australia including the upcoming Rolex Sydney Hobart.

Recent Notes : Dorade earned several awards at the 2017 Newport Beach Wooden Boat Festival including “People’s Choice Best in Class” and “Most Distinguished Provenance.” Dorade is currently in Australia participating in the yacht races down under. Her team continuously works to keep her maintained in top shape for racing. Brooks and Levy plan to continue demonstrating this antique yacht’s sailing ability by challenging racing yachts of today in regattas around the world.

On the Horizon: Dorade ’s sailing team has a full 2018 race schedule. She received an invitation and will participate in the Melbourne Festival of Sails in January. She will compete in the Dubai to Muscat Sailing Race in March. The crew will go on to race during the month of May in the Les Voiles Des Cassis and Les Voiles D’Antibes. More races follow in early to mid June. The crew will contend for the Giraglia Rolex Cup. Summer months include a race in Barcelona. A race from Cannes to Saint Tropez is also planned in October of next year.

Achievements : Dorade’s victories are too numerous to list, as she has excelled in so many international yachting competitions. Her racing results are listed online at dorade.org/results-2017 .

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77 Years Later, Yacht Repeats Win in Trans-Pacific Race

By Chris Museler

• July 25, 2013

It took a thousand or so miles of sailing with the long, powerful waves of the Pacific Ocean for Hannah Jenner, a rising star in ocean racing, to get comfortable in this year’s Transpacific Yacht Race. Jenner, a 31-year-old from Britain, is used to racing ultralight 40-footers across oceans. But in the Transpac this month, Jenner was sailing Dorade, a 52-foot wooden sailboat from 1930 that is trimmed in varnished mahogany and adorned with polished bronze hardware.

“When I first was asked, I said: ‘Really? How old is this boat? Isn’t it going to break?’ ” Jenner said. “I’m used to boats that become more stable the faster they go. This boat rolls like crazy. It’s like learning all over again.”

Dorade , considered the forebear of modern ocean racing yachts, won the 2,225-nautical-mile Transpac race from Los Angeles to Honolulu in 1936. And 77 years later, the slender white hull with tall spruce masts rolled to victory again, beating the most modern carbon-fiber ocean racers to win its division and the overall King Kalakaua Trophy.

Racing classic wooden yachts is not unusual, but the sailing is often restricted to coastal day racing around buoys. Dorade’s owner, Matt Brooks, has a more ambitious goal of racing his yacht in all the great ocean races the boat won in the 1930s and ’40s. He said he was told that the Dorade was a “piece of antique furniture” and that “it couldn’t be done,” but Brooks and his crew received the overall winner’s trophy for the Transpac on Thursday, which should silence skeptics.

“What we found was that the boat loves the ocean,” said Brooks, who bought the boat in 2010 for $880,000. “You can tell she’s doing what she loves to do.”

Dorade was designed in 1929 by Olin Stephens, one of sailing’s most successful designers. The yawl was design No. 7 for the fledgling firm Sparkman and Stephens in Manhattan. Stephens, then 21, and his brother Rod were at the helm when the mahogany-planked, engineless boat made its first mark in the history books, winning the 1931 Transatlantic Race. Small and powerful, Dorade beat the traditional schooners of the time. The designer and his crew received a ticker-tape parade upon their return to New York, and the win set the stage for Stephens’s long career .

Dorade’s finishing time in the Transpac race this year was 12 days 5 hours 23 minutes 18 seconds, knocking more than a day off the boat’s 1936 run. The greatest distance covered in a day, or best 24-hour run, was 224 miles in 1936, but 203 miles this year.

Handicap rules used for offshore racing allow boats of different sizes and types to compete in the same race with time allowances and staggered starts. Figuring in those allowances, Dorade’s adjusted time of 5 days 12 hours 20 minutes 55 seconds beat Roy P. Disney’s modern 70-footer Pyewacket, which had an adjusted time of 5 days 14 hours 51 minutes 21 seconds. Dorade started a week earlier than Pyewacket, which finished the course in 8 days 15 hours 41 minutes 3 seconds.

“The whole idea of a boat like Dorade pulling this off has great benefits,” Disney said, referring to the publicity the win has attracted.

He added that he hoped more classic boats would race in the next Transpac. Disney said he had considered racing the wooden maxi yacht Windward Passage, which broke the course record in 1971, a result often called the Transpac’s greatest performance.

Brooks’s schedule for Dorade is primarily an attempt to recreate history. The list of races includes the Newport Bermuda Race, the Transatlantic Race and the Fastnet Race. Dorade raced in the 2012 Newport Bermuda Race, finishing sixth in its class. Brooks has his sights set on another Newport Bermuda Race in 2014, followed by the 2015 Transatlantic and Fastnet Races.

For this year’s Transpac race, Brooks and his crew spent last winter in San Francisco and Los Angeles testing different sails, navigation equipment and sailing techniques while racking up more than a thousand miles of ocean sailing. Dorade is the oldest boat to race and win the Transpac, but Brooks treated the yacht like any other top racing program in the fleet.

Brooks had new masts designed and built, in spruce, to handle the additional stresses of new laminated, aramid fiber sails. The hull, which was slightly asymmetrical as a result of its age, was faired and re-scanned. Some of the best sailors in the world were brought in to round out the seven-person crew, including an America’s Cup navigator and an around-the-world race skipper.

“The boat was extremely well sailed,” said Robbie Haines, an Olympic gold medalist who was a helmsman aboard Pyewacket. “Though it’s disappointing to us, part of me kind of likes seeing Dorade win.”

What Jenner and the rest of Dorade’s crew learned on their two-week sojourn was that the genius of the boat’s design and how the sailors in the 1930s skillfully sailed her never go out of style.

“It was definitely a new style of steering,” Jenner said. “Everything all of us know we had to forget and go to the old school type of sailing.”

The crew watched old films of Olin Stephens steering a rocking and rolling Dorade in the 1931 Transatlantic and holding the tiller steady in the center of the boat. By the end of this Transpac, Jenner said, they were all steering the same way as Stephens.

Brooks and the navigator Matt Wachowicz added to the historical realism by practicing celestial navigation all the way to Hawaii.

“We wanted to complete the historic circle,” said Brooks, who is a member of the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco, the same club that had James Flood, the boat’s 1936 owner, as a member. “We were within a mile or so of the GPS course.”

Despite the unruly motion of the narrow hull, Jenner said Dorade offered benefits over boats like Pyewacket.

“On this boat there are actually bunks with cushions as opposed to sleeping on sails,” she said. “It’s also bizarrely silent down below a wooden boat, but you can hear creaking and cracking noises, which was a little unsettling.”

Few boats have as grand a history as Dorade’s, but Brooks hopes to prove a point with the boat.

“I hope this win will make people sit up and take notice that these boats can still do what they were designed to do,” he said. “They shouldn’t be restricted to dockside museum pieces.”

A picture caption last Friday with an article about Dorade’s victory in the Transpacific Yacht Race 77 years after winning it the first time carried an erroneous credit. The photograph, provided by Ultimate Sailing, was taken by Sharon Green, not by Betsy Crowfoot.

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Dorade completes historic campaign

The 1930-built wooden yawl Dorade has completed a four-year campaign to repeat all of the major ocean races the classic yacht won in the 1930s, finishing up on the podium at the 2015 Rolex Fastnet Race, where Dorade took second in IRC Class 4 and seventh overall out of 356 boats. The 52-foot boat built by Olin and Rod Stephens was the oldest vessel to compete in this year’s Fastnet and took home three of the event’s most prestigious trophies: the Sparkman & Stephens Trophy, the Iolaire Block and the Coates Schofield Trophy. Finishing the 615-mile race in four days, six hours, 13 minutes and 42 seconds, owners Matt Brooks and Pam Rorke Levy and their seven-man crew cut more than 24 hours off Rod and Olin Stephens’ original 1931 Fastnet winning time.

Dorade first made headlines in the 1931 Transatlantic Race from Newport, R.I., to Plymouth, England, when Olin and Rod Stephens sailed their wooden yawl to victory against a fleet of big schooners. 

This year’s Fastnet Race was the final event in Brooks and Levy’s “Return to Blue Water” campaign. The goal of the campaign was to restore the 80-year-old yacht to ocean-racing condition and repeat all four of the major ocean races it won in the 1930s. 

In 2013, Dorade won the 2,225-mile Transpacific Race overall on corrected time, 77 years after winning that race for the first time. That win was followed by class victories in the Caribbean 600 and the 2014 Newport-Bermuda Race, as well as second in class in the 2015 Transatlantic Race. The successful completion of the Fastnet Race represents a clean sweep of all four races in the campaign, improving on the yacht’s original performance in every case and exceeding all expectations.

After wintering in Newport, the owners plan to continue campaigning Dorade , beginning in June 2016 with the 50th anniversary of the Newport Bermuda Race, followed by an active summer season in New England. From there, the team will compete in a series of races in Asia and finish with the Sydney Hobart Race in Australia.

The Latest Adventures of Dorade

Published on April 20th, 2017 by Editor -->

Over the past 86 years, the iconic Sparkman & Stephens classic yacht Dorade has sailed hundreds of thousands of nautical miles across open water and won more ocean races than any other yacht in history. And she is not showing any signs of slowing down.

This year marks yet another milestone for the legendary 52-foot yawl, as she and her crew travel for the first time to the southern hemisphere for the “Dorade Down Under” campaign, with plans to race in seven events off the southern coast of Australia before taking on the 628-nautical mile Rolex Sydney Hobart Race in December.

“We’re looking forward to doing something that Dorade has never done before in a place that neither Dorade nor I have ever been to,” said Captain Matt Brooks who with Pam Rorke Levy purchased the classic yacht in 2010 to demonstrate that a classic racing yacht like Dorade, properly restored and sailed, could still be competitive in the modern racing world.

Dorade Owners Pam Rorke Levy and Matt Brooks. © Jens Lange

“We have done a lot of offshore ocean racing with Dorade, and I know the yacht and crew are capable, but it will be a challenge nonetheless, especially the iconic Rolex Sydney Hobart which is well known for severe weather conditions,” noted Brooks.

Designed in 1929 by 21-year-old Olin Stephens and built under his younger brother Rod Stephens’ supervision, Dorade’s revolutionary design – a deep keel with external ballast, an achingly narrow beam of just 10’3”, and a generous sail plan – took the yachting world by storm, quickly establishing the Stephens brothers as two of the sport’s most gifted innovators.

In 1931, the brothers raced Dorade in the Transatlantic Race from Newport, Rhode Island to Plymouth, England, competing against much larger boats owned by some of the world’s wealthiest sportsmen and crewed by veteran sailors. An upset victory that made headlines around the world, Dorade was the first boat to finish by a margin of more than two days.

In the decade that followed, she continued topping the charts in some of the world’s most renowned offshore events, including overall victories in the Fastnet, in both 1931 and 1933, and the Tranpac Race in 1936.

Like Dorade’s predecessors, Brooks’ spirit for adventure knows no boundaries; he had already accomplished momentous expeditions both on land and in the air; he is a gifted aviator, holding multiple circumnavigation speed records, and a seasoned mountaineer with many first ascents under his belt.

His successful track record for organizing ambitious campaigns and recruiting a team comprised of the best people helped turn Dorade’s campaign into a reality. “Whether it’s scuba diving, flying, mountain climbing or sailing, my main goal when doing it is to enjoy the outdoors and always take the road less traveled,” explained Brooks.

“We looked at a lot of boats when we were planning to start campaigning and racing, and many may have been a better fit, but when we saw Dorade it was love at first sight, and we are grateful for all the places Dorade has taken us,” said Brooks, who with Pam Rorke Levy, spent a year restoring Dorade to its original condition before kicking off the ‘Return to Blue Water’ campaign.

Their goal with that campaign was to repeat all of the major ocean races the yacht had won in the 1930s, matching or bettering her original performance in the Transatlantic, Newport-Bermuda, Fastnet and Transpac ocean races. The campaign was successful beyond their wildest dreams, with the team not only bettering Dorade’s original times in all of the races, but also reaching the podium in every race and winning the 2013 Transpacific Yacht Race overall on corrected time, 77 years after Dorade won that race for the first time.

Dorade team in Cowes after completing the 2015 Transatlantic Race. © Paul Wyeth

In 2015, the campaign wrapped up with stellar performances by an all-star crew, placing second in class in an exceptionally rough and windy 2,800-mile Transatlantic Race, followed by second in class in the Rolex Fastnet Race, where Dorade finished 7th overall out of 356 boats.

The “Dorade Down Under” campaign presents a new set of challenges in unfamiliar waters, with the Dorade team facing the heavy breezes and tricky conditions that prevail in southern waters, competing against a fleet of modern boats optimized for these conditions.

“The conditions are likely to be much rougher than what we’ve experienced with Dorade in the past, so we’re going to try and find conditions like that to test in and see where we can find improvements,” said Dorade tactician Kevin Miller. After several months of updates over the winter, Dorade was transported to Ventura, California this spring to begin final preparations for racing in extreme conditions, including a series of races along the west coast of the US, before being shipped to Australia in June.

“Dorade has always proven to be a really strong boat, but this will be a tougher test of the boat than even the Transatlantic in 2015,” says Miller. “We need to make sure the boat is bulletproof.

“We’re going to be dealing with volatile conditions and a serious wind-against-tide component when we get down there, so we need to work on our upwind speed in heavy air and make sure our instrumentation is perfectly calibrated. If our instruments are even just a tiny bit off, any information we get regarding the tide will be completely inaccurate.”

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Under the slogan #welcometoyourjob, we publish video clips about success stories of international professionals who have found their feet in the region, both professionally and privately. The professionals talk about their experiences and how they came to the companies in Ulm. The Welcome Center Ulm/Oberschwaben accompanied and supported them.

Altin Shijaku from the Kosovo

Dhanya Thondukulam Kannan from India

Lifeng Geiger-Zhu from China

News and events

New to Ulm – arriving professionally

Are you new to Ulm or the Alb-donau district? Do you want to get started professionally or make…

German course for refugees with trauma-related problems

The offer is aimed at refugees who have been living in Germany for a long time and who,…

FAQ Right of residence and Corona

For many immigrant workers, the measures to contain the coronavirus and their economic consequences have implications on several…

Tips for international students – How do I finance my studies in Germany?

“There’s no money in it,” as the saying goes in German. The Service Center for Intercultural Competence (SIK)…

Rahel Mödinger Head of Welcome Center Ulm/Oberschwaben

Tel. +49 731 . 173-304 Fax +49 731 . 173-5304 [email protected]

Ingrid Kirchner Advisor Companies

Tel. 0731 . 173-133 Fax 0731 . 173-5133 [email protected]

Hanna Bareiß Advisor international skilled professionals and students

Tel. 0731 . 173-241 Fax 0731 . 173-5241 [email protected]

Katrin Hamm Project Assistance

Tel. +49 731 . 173-207 Fax +49 731 . 173-5207 [email protected]

Brochure “Best Practice” as PDF to download

Corinthian Classic Yacht Regatta

Read the most recent news from the Corinthian Classic Yacht Regatta regarding Dorade: 

Every season the Corinthian Classic Yacht Regatta (CCYR) is gifted with the presence of some truly significant and pure classic sailing yachts. Nothing could be more of an honor this year than to have Dorade in our midst for the Corinthian Classic Yacht Regatta presented by Officine Panerai.

Dorade is yachting history. Dorade is genius, power, balance, and beauty. Dorade is the epitome of a classic yacht. There is no other that comes close to her record.

• 1930 Bermuda Race, Class B: Second; First all-amateur crew
• 1930 Trans-Atlantic Race: First
• 1930 Cowes Round-The-Island Race: Second; Cowes Cruising Class: Second
• 1932 Bermuda Race: First
• 1933 Oslo to Hanko Match Race with “Jolie Brise”: First
• 1933 Fastnet Race: First
• 1936 San Francisco-Farallon Race: First; Transpacific Race: First
• 1947–1979 Participated in fifteen Swiftsure races: First in Class AA 1947–1948, 1951, 1954, and 1964.
• 2013 Transpacific Yacht Race: First overall
• 2014 Newport to Bermuda: First in Class – IRC – Class 2
• 2015 Transatlantic: New Transatlantic speed record

Dorade’s 80-year legend continues to grow and she’ll be with us August 13th and 14th. This is your chance to sail next to a yachting icon. Don’t miss what is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Register for the CCYR today.

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