77 years later. Great news. Hope this brings more of these old beauties into high profile racing like this. Why not? It's handicap racing anyway so the ratings will always be suspect. Winners get their ratings lowered, usually, don't they?

The cool thing in this NYTs article is what the young sailors on Dorade said. Old boat sailing is new stuff to them, but they seemed to catch on and turned it into a challenge. Said it was a nice change to go below, lay in a real seaberth, and enjoy the sound of a wooden boat as opposed to a pounding flat racer. And the owner needed new spars to handle the different stresses of new composite sails. They made them with spruce! Woods design adaptable.

Here's a video of Dorade sailing under spinnaker, mizzen staysail and reefed mizzen. I learned a few things about flying the mizzen staysail watching this, the young guys have her moving real well in this footage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SShmgbiG7w

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/sports/77-years-later-yacht-repeats-win-in-transpacific-race.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Here she is winning a Transpac in 1936.