Sullivan Stories

Schooner Days, The Poseiden Adventure , toilet training, reversals of fortune, CHJ Snider, and knowing "It's a lifestyle choice, not a career" (photography that is). Chris is a photographer, sailor, author, diver, researcher, and storyteller who spent ten seasons documenting life aboard the Denis Sullivan.

From a fiberglass sloop and Friends Good Will to Picton Castle,  Lynx, and many more, Sam currently owns the schooner Victory Chimes and will be delving into the Grace Bailey shortly. Sea Scouts, HMS Bounty, far off islands, Captain Jerry, Ed Pratt, oral tradition, and that Marine Operations Director for a pizza company. 

Early infuences, South Street Seaport, hand stitched flags, Lake Erie mayflies, Nova Scotia, Bosun School, "Drop the rest of your life and go sailing", "Pipes & Robes", seafaring women's remarkable stories and the shipmate and graphic artist who gave me my first tattoo.  See also: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/seafaring-women-hand-stitched-flags-project-in...

Paul Peloquin joins Captain Flansburg, Noah, and the ship for uprig in Florida. Then on to St. Croix. Cranes, caulking, Shakespeare, AmeriCorps cohorts, and more!

Join Tom for the final episode of Season 1 with very special guest Captain Tiffany Kriwhan, the longest serving captain of Denis Sullivan. Topics include growing up on Presque Isle Bay, racing and going slow, Captain Ron, going poly-nautical, animals in jars, cherry pits in the head,  Northern Lights, and the beautiful things only sailors get to see.

Join Tom and special guest Kristian Isringhhaus when they discuss bilge crawling, the German Speakers of Minnesota, hitch hiking around the world, big bobbers, rigging Peking in Germany, buying a boat in Guadaloupe, sailing on a Friday and "Do you really go out there?"

Sullivan Stories: Episode 12 Special guest Brandon Orozco. Going from carnivals to tall ships, ship rigging to theater rigging,  plus wooden boats in Denmark, tricks with string,  tornado calculations, unconventional advice and knowing it's bad luck to be too superstitious. 

Tom Kastle discusses schooners, sailing, staring your own sailing business, and having guns drawn on you for catching lines in Miami with special guest Brian Hoepker.

Join us for a talk with Paul Peloquin, former Denis Sullivan mate and engineer. Subjects include patience, sea cooks, travels, a shipboard mutual admiration society, TGI Friday touring, and throwing pancakes to bridge tenders. 

Part 2 of Sullivan Stories with Capt Ben Hale. The myth of "Two-six- heave!", South Street, training Sullivan instructors even before the launch, being in a really good place, and "Anyone an haul sails but you made us brownies". 

From intern to captain with a few adventures along the way including rounding Cape Horn on a square rigger. Learning about the the virtues of luck and gratitude, how to start sailing the ship in your head and the "restaurant-ation" of Highlander Sea.

Denis Sullivan mate, relief captain and lover of history, Jimmy McManus talks about ships, shipmates, and taking care of 6,000 acres of wilderness, a few prehistoric buildings and 14 trailer homes. 

Denis Sullivan mate talks about her oddyssey from Norfolk to Milwaukee, being a good forecastle "room mate", various inspirations, and "cold brreakfast for lunch" 

This episode features the nautical couple of Nate Bray-Marks, former chief engineer and Colette Emanuel Bray-Marks, former mate who are now pursuing new adventures both aboard and ashore. 

Join us for Episode 4 with Maura Hackett, tall ship captain and director of a not-for-profit social justice organization in New York. 

Abby Werner is  a former chief engineer of Denis Sullivan. This 2021 interview was recorded from a research vessel in the Great Lakes. 

2021 interview with Maggie Knott looking for a ship in Florida