See also: Sea-bream

Dorade is the name of a sailing drawn by the architect Olin Stephens in 1931, helped by his/her Rod brother and his father for the financing, at the time of a transatlantic race. It is about its second boat. Although one of smallest of the boats engaged in the race (52 feet), it gains it in real-time and compensated time, in particular thanks to the talent of tactician of sound skipper which gives up the currents of the Gulf Stream but chooses the Orthodromie.

Dorade also gains the race of Fastnet right after as well as the following year. It marks the beginning of a series of sailing ships of Stephens which will be unequalled in the regattas, such Stormy Weather or the Morning Cloud .

Dorade was restored in the years 1990 in Italy. In its first version, it had a Gréement of Yawl. It is typical drawings of Stephens: narrow, light, twinge court with before and moderated with the back, careens deep and elegant, return of galbord marked. It is distinguished in particular vis-a-vis the wind and in the swell where it types little.

It comprised an technical innovation, its air intakes to which it gave its name, the Dorades.

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External bonds

• Photography of the Rosenfeld collection.
• Vidéos of the Characteristic races of 1931.