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-inbal-newman-lunenburg-1.6371519

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".