Skipper Eliot Merrill and his crew aboard the Lyman-Morse 46 Acadia sailed hard and came up with class honors in the 40th running of the Annapolis-Newport Race.

Merrill reports leaving the Chesapeake Bay dead last in the ORC Open 2 Class but made all the right moves to move to first place after 3 days and 11 hours of sailing aboard the Thomaston-Maine built boat.