Rick Spilman
- Location
- Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
- Birthday
- March 25
- Bio
- I am the author of a nautical thriller set in the last days of sail, Hell Around the Horn. I also the host of the Old Salt Blog. I have a background in ship operations, banking and corporate communications. I am an avid sailor and kayaker.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Sailor Dies in Artemis Racing
AC72 Capsize Practicing for
the America’s Cup
May 09, 2013 06:23PM - South Street Seaport
Museum’s Schooner Pioneer
Sails Again
May 09, 2013 09:45AM - Container/Ro-Ro Ship Jolly
Nero Topples Genoa Port Tower,
At Least 7 Dead
May 08, 2013 10:22AM - Cannibalism on Land and Sea
May 07, 2013 08:49AM - Voyage of the Mobro 4000 –
Wandering Garbage Barge Helps
Usher in the Era of Recycling
May 06, 2013 07:23AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “I can agree on the
dating of Shakespeare's
plays.
Nevertheless I think a
strong c…”
May 27, 2012 05:19PM - “One of Shakespeare's
three "shipwreck" plays, the
Tempest,
is
believed…”
May 23, 2012 04:58PM - “No I haven't. I'll have
to check it out.
Thanks.”
May 22, 2012 11:22AM - “I agree.
I am
really looking forward to
seeing the Dragon under
sail.”
May 20, 2012 02:13PM - “That is probably why
they need to offer such a
large
reward.”
April 19, 2012 07:22PM
Rick Spilman's Links
Charles Spencer, writing for the
Telegraph, had a hunch. After reviewing the Royal Shakespeare
Company’s trilogy of
Shakespeare’s
“shipwreck†plays last month,
 he  found himself wondering whether the
Bard spent his so-called “lost
years†before his arrival in London, as sailor.… Read full post »
Dolphins and Birds Dying on the Coast of Peru – No Clear Answer Why
Photo: Peru21
Something is terribly wrong on the coast of Peru.  At least 877 dolphins and more than 1,500 birds, most of them brown pelicans and boobies, have died along the coast since February when the government started tracking the deaths. The government says that the deaths of the do… Read full post »

During the month of August in the year 1817 the harbor at Gloucester, Massachusetts was visited almost daily by a many humped sea serpent, estimated to be somewhere between 50 and 100 feet long. The creature was seen by many hundreds of people over the new few years along the shores of… Read full post »
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