Sankaty by Sankaty 3"h x 5"w, © July, 2000 Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Markus Ritter, Racine, WI For commissioned quilts contact clvquilts@yahoo.com. Judy and Markus Ritter spent the past year circumnavigating the East Coast. In September 1999 they set sail on Sankaty, their Mariner 36, and headed from Wisconsin to the Florida Keys via the Chicago Canal, and the Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and Mobil Rivers. This spring they turned her bow north and traveled up the Intercoast Waterway, including at visit to our dock at Spray Beach, NJ. In July of 2000 they returned home through the locks in New York's canals and the Great Lakes.

Sankaty was named by her original owners after the Sankaty Lighthouse on Nantucket, MA. Sankaty, the sailboat, is pictured at Spray Beach Yacht Club. Peter and I met Markus and Judy for the first time after corresponding with them through the Mariner Yachts Owners Group that Peter organized. We own Sankaty's sister ship Fandango and have cruised on her as far north as Massachusetts and as far south as Maryland.