Dorade

Dorade, Olin Stephens
Billy Black, CC BY 4.0

The narrow ocean racer that made Olin Stephens famous and gave its name to a kind of ventilator.

Dorade won the 1931 transatlantic race by a wide margin. The ventilator that lets in air but not water bears the boat’s name.

Materials: Wood; sloop and later yawl rig

Manufacture: Built at City Island, New York.

The narrow hull with low freeboard.

The ventilators on deck, known as dorades.