↓

a virtual port of call for all those who love the sea , hosted by nautical novelist Rick Spilman

Skip to primary content

Skip to secondary content

Home
Lore of the Sea
- Sea Songs
- Ships
- Language
- Current
- Rigging
Sea Stories
Old Salt Press
History
Gallery
Contact

Search for:

Home→Old Salt Blog Home Page

Old Salt Blog Home Page

Recent Comments

webhosting on Stowaways — Complicated, Messy, Expensive and Possibly Dangerous
webhosting on Contact
Seymour Hamilton on USS Gerald R. Ford Retreats From Red Sea, Beaten By Broken Toilets, Laundry Room Fire and Exhausted Crew
Tiredofit on USS Gerald R. Ford Retreats From Red Sea, Beaten By Broken Toilets, Laundry Room Fire and Exhausted Crew
Craig on Trump Admin Orders “God Squad” To Waive Protection For Endangered Species
ws on If He Only Had a Brain — Scarecrow Trump Says Tanker Operators Lack Guts
Doug Faunt on If He Only Had a Brain — Scarecrow Trump Says Tanker Operators Lack Guts
Stuart Reininger on Trump’s War on Iraq — Are There Lessons to Be Learned From Millennium Challenge 2002?
Summer on Trump’s Navy Secretary Phelan — Billionaire Donor, No Military Experience, Porn Collector With Epstein Links, of Course
AaronD on Harriet Tubman, Part 2 — the Arc of History Doesn’t Always Bend Toward Justice
Celebrating Black History Month — Part 1: Harriet Tubman & the Great Combahee Ferry Raid on Harriet Tubman, Part 2 — the Arc of History Doesn’t Always Bend Toward Justice
Harriet Tubman, Part 2 -- the Arc of History Doesn't Always Bend Toward Justice on Celebrating Black History Month — Part 1: Harriet Tubman & the Great Combahee Ferry Raid
porntude on Remembering Robert Smalls – Former Slave, Pilot of the Planter, First Black Captain in the US Navy & US Congressman
Rick Spilman on Celebrating Black History Month — Part 1: Harriet Tubman & the Great Combahee Ferry Raid
Boca Jim on Celebrating Black History Month — Part 1: Harriet Tubman & the Great Combahee Ferry Raid

Get new posts by email:

Featured Books

Evening Gray Morning Red
by Rick Spilman

The Shanytman
by Rick Spilman

Hell Around the Horn
by Rick Spilman

Tupaia: Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator by Joan Druett

Barbados Bound
by Linda Collison

Cut and Run by Alaric Bond

The Prodigal by S. K. Keogh

A Tainted Dawn: The Great War (1792-1815) Book I by B. N. Peacock

True Colours by Alaric Bond

A Battle Won by S. Thomas Russell

His Majesty's Ship by Alaric Bond

Galveston's the Elissa: The Tall Ship of Texas by Kurt Voss

My River Chronicles - Rediscovering the America on the Hudson by Jessica DuLong

The Frigate Surprise: The Complete Story of the Ship Made Famous in the Novels of Patrick O'Brian by by Geoff Hunt and Brian Lavery

James Nelson's
George Washington's Secret Navy

Defying Empire:Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York by Thomas Truxes

Deadly Shoals, a Wiki Coffin Mystery by Joan Druett

The Privateer's Revenge: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Kydd Sea Adventures)

Peter Wicked: A Matty Graves Novel (The Matty Graves Novels)

The Jackass Frigate by
Alaric Bond

Steady As She Goes
by John Molloy

Voyages, the Age of Sail: Documents in American Maritime History, Volume I, 1492-1865

Expedition Whydah: The Story of the World's First Excavation of a Pirate Treasure Ship and the Man Who Found Her

Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge

The Illustrated Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

webhosting on Stowaways — Complicated, Messy, Expensive and Possibly DangerousApril 17, 2026
Some genuinely quality blog posts on this site, saved to favorites.
webhosting on ContactApril 17, 2026
Keep working ,terrific job!
Seymour Hamilton on USS Gerald R. Ford Retreats From Red Sea, Beaten By Broken Toilets, Laundry Room Fire and Exhausted CrewApril 16, 2026
At sea and in space the Navy and NASA don’t seem to have a grip on basic plumbing.
Tiredofit on USS Gerald R. Ford Retreats From Red Sea, Beaten By Broken Toilets, Laundry Room Fire and Exhausted CrewApril 16, 2026
I understand the problems with the ship itself - those are beyond ridiculous and demonstrates to me that the Navy…
Craig on Trump Admin Orders “God Squad” To Waive Protection For Endangered SpeciesApril 4, 2026
Thanks for letting us know. Can never rest, can we?

© 2026 - Proudly powered by WordPress Weaver II by WP Weaver