(180625)  Marc Bennett and wife, Julie Seraphinoff, are the 2018 North American Wayfarer champions. In an abbreviated four-race series sailed in light to medium airs on Chesapeake Bay off Rock Hall, Maryland, June 16-17, Marc and Julie - of East Lansing, MI - dominated a ten-boat fleet that included most of our top-rated, active North American Wayfarers. At 1-3-1-1 Team Ras Green was comfortably ahead of Mike and Marg Duncan (2-1-2-5), Al Schonborn with Frank Goulay (4-4-3-2), and David and Anne Pugh (3-5-4-4) a trio of Canadian teams who placed 2-3-4 in the series. We shared the monohulls course with similar-sized fleets of Windmills and Comets. The latter were also sailing their class North Americans  while for the Windmills, it was their Mid-Atlantic Championships. More soon from Marg Duncan who is reporting on the event for the SKIMMER.

In Friday's Down-the-Chester-River Race, sailed in hot, light-to-medium, always-unpredicatble winds, the Pughs topped a gaggle of eight Wayfarers. In a very mixed fleet of 30 boats, the Pughs lost to only a pair of the high-performance A-Cats on straight time, while on corrected time, David and Anne ended up 2nd overall, behind a Sandpiper 655 that had placed 20th on straight time. More to come soon from Sarah Pedersen who crewed for Nick Seraphinoff along with daughter, Mila (15) and son, Erik (13) - see photo below.