My youngest daughter (19) has come home for the weekend on her first break since joining the Navy.....sporting a couple of new tatoos.

Never had one, never wanted one but recently have been starting to think I would like a few traditional sailors tatoos. Must be a post midlife crisis. The one I would like most would be the hardest to earn. A fully rigged tallship. Anyone got one of those or others that commorate an event or achievement.

cammd said..
The one I would like most would be the hardest to earn. A fully rigged tallship.

It's your body cammd. You don't have to earn a tattoo, you just need to pay for it.. When caucasians get Japanese coy or polynesian royalty marks and say how much it means to them, then tradition no longer means anything.

That said, I have been toying with the idea of a swallow for 5000 nm sailed

The tattoos I see on the arms of folks these days reminds me of when I use to preg test cattle

The best tatt that I have seen was on a workmates butt cheek, the stamp applied to beef, grade A aussie beef.