Mission
The people we've sailed with and the environments we've struggled to overcome have left us salt covered, weather worn, and in awe of the sea. Through digital and hard copy media, Dirty Sailor Company documents the attitudes and beliefs of seafarers, across all seafaring sects, to promote maritime culture and heritage in the 21st century.
In this condition, like all true seamen, who are perhaps the least of all mankind, given to forethought, they gave it over. - Robinson Crusoe
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News, Stories, Ideas, Rants and User Shares, we post new articles often!
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Reading A World of My Own
A review and commentary of Robin Knox-Johnston’s “A World of My Own: The first ever non-stop solo round the world voyage.”
The Crew of the Spray
Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum is a great view into the mind of a individualist and seafarer heading into the 20th century.
Medusa’s Raft
This is the story of the suffering, death and cannibalism of humans at sea. It is an extreme example of how failure of leadership can lead to the complete breakdown of empathy between humans.
Of Course Seaman Tucker is not Guilty
Kelch is Dead and CG Seaman Ethan Tucker is Innocent. We need to have re-look at what happened in Dutch Harbor. Leadership Changes Behavior.
How a Murder Trial Defines the Coast Guard
Justice for USCG Seaman Kelch will be found at the organizational level. It will not be served by convicting his shipmate of murder.
100 Sea Stories by 100 Seafarers
Publish your sea story with 99 other mariners. 100 Sea Stories by 100 Seafarers is an attempt to paint a portrait of the seafarer’s experience, through the lenses of mariners across time and cultures.
Beyond the Command
An update to our article on the USCG Officer Young-McLear and her harassment case against her command that turned into so much more.
The Greywacke Mantle
The Old Sea Man stares within his room, rocking in a static chair. Me, I’m just confused, with beer bubbles everywhere…. A short by Bradley Angle
Coast Guard Whistleblower
What is the key take away from USCG LtCmdr Young-McLear’s whistleblower case? Dirty Sailor Company investigates, for another piece of Coast Guard Culture.
USS Marlinspike
Dick Richards’ sea-story, where he remembers being a young seaman aboard the USS Marlinspike, and how that training was or wasn’t applied in his career.
Old Salt
Captain Z shares a story of a sea-story. Old Salt brings us closer to our maritime heritage, one fist to the gut at a time.
Curiously Silent Commandant Schultz
Coast Guard Leadership Refuses to Answer Congress
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