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Dorade Yawl that launched S&S

There is usually a time and a place for breakthrough innovation, when step changes can be made, and the young Olin Stephens found himself opportunely placed to make his mark. The time was 1929, the place was City Island, New York and the boat was Dorade.

Dorade is the product of an immensely bright, inquisitive and critical mind, whose passion was ocean racing and who in 1929

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