By Lucy Chabot Reed

The Triton listed its 1,000th classified ad in July, a witty request for a sailing stewardess with no dietary or attitude problems.

The ad came from Chef Jessica Devereaux and Capt. Steve Ray, who have run S/Y Seljm for nearly 11 years.

The charter yacht, a 34m Sangermani staysail schooner, has been on a whirlwind cruise for the past two years, with at least another year of exciting cruising to go.

Forgive us this shameless plug of The Triton’s free classified ad listings. Though Seljm didn’t find her stew through us, the ad did generate “a ton of responses,” Devereaux said.

Our online classifieds listings at www.the-triton.com average 2,500 visitors and 12,000 pages viewed a month. We have helped hundreds of yachts and crew find each other.

The Triton doesn’t take an active role in checking credentials or vouching for the qualifications listed in the ads – check with a crew agency for that kind of service – so please use professional discretion in interviewing and selecting possible boats and crew.

The yacht isn’t well known in the states, Devereaux said, but is a familiar sight in Antigua, where it won overall in its class this year in the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta, took the honors for best-dressed crew, and won first place (again, in class) in the Concourse d’Elegance.

“A great tribute to the quality of crew, race crew, extra help, and even guests,” she said. “[They] wanted us to look our best when the judges came onboard, so they went out to breakfast and stayed away all morning so we could get the yacht in tip-top shape to be seen.”

Under Ray’s command, Seljm has been around the world twice and is due to head back out to the Pacific again next spring. The private yacht carries five crew and eight guests.

“The boss and his wife are great, their guests are wonderful, the program is always something new, different and exciting, and when the crew mix is right, life couldn’t be better,” Devereaux said. “Seljm is a very solidly built yacht, very comfortable. What more could we ask for?”

Just a stew, it seems.

Contact Editor Lucy Chabot Reed at lucy@the-triton.com.

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