Two Palm Beach newcomers host a charitable dinner party aboard their yacht and share their passion for the water with guests BY MICHELE MEYER PHOTOGRAPHY BY JERRY RABINOWITZ
Marsha Serlin and Jerry Sloan await the arrival of their Ultimate Dinner Party guests on board their yacht, the MTL.
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arefoot is best,” the invite for Marsha Serlin and Jerry Sloan’s Ultimate Dinner Party suggested. Yet shod or not, nothing was ordinary for the couple’s elegant evening to support Children’s Home Society of Florida (CHS) aboard MTL, their 112-foot, tri-deck Ocean Alexander 34R. Their gathering was one of many taking place that night, with funds benefiting the organization’s mission to help keep families safe, strong, and together. Serlin—who serves as CEO of United Scrap Metal, a top industrial recycling company she launched in 1978 with $200 and a rental truck—says the “barefoot is best” prompt was born out of practicality and safety. “We didn’t want anyone falling down, and they all listened,” she says. “The women wore beautiful dresses, but no shoes. We had so much fun.” Indeed, Serlin, Sloan, and their 10 guests—none of whom they’d met before—were laughing so hard by dinner’s end that they remained in the yacht’s dining room despite musical lures of the band Euphoria performing covers from Van Halen to Frank Sinatra on the upper deck, where dessert finally was served. Chef James King, a frequent Ultimate Dinner Party culinary participant and the former chef at Eastpointe Country Club in Palm Beach Gardens and PALMBEACHILLUSTRATED.COM | MAY 2022
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