Brown/Yellow Hull

Black Hull

The Dorade was designed in New York City by Sparkman & Stephens. At her launch the Dorade scared people, too little freeboard, too small, too much sail, too narrow, too fragile, and looked somewhat truncated because she lacked bowsprit. In her first competition, the Bermuda Race from Newport to Bermuda, Dorade finished third overall and second in her class.

Black/White Hull

When the Stephens brothers sold Dorade to a Californian in 1936, she had proved a revolutionary boat. She had other owners, entered other races and go on cruises. Gradually she disappeared from the front of the stage, but not without teaching her successors a thing or two.

The little Dorade reappeared in a rally circuit for traditional boats at Porto Cervo in Sardinia in 1997. The boat had come through a very extensive restoration at the Italian Navy yard Argentario.

As soon as she took up racing again, Dorade started winning regattas, just as she had done in the beginning.