Black ink line drawing of an anchor whose rope curves into an infinity symbol, with arrowheads on the rope, on white paper.

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Anchor and infinity sign design

Black and grey · Flash

A black ink line drawing on white paper shows an anchor with a ring at the top and a crossbar, its rope curving down and around into an infinity symbol. Two arrowheads sit along the curved rope, and the lines are bold and even with no shading. The design is centred and fills most of the frame against a plain, slightly textured background.

Anchor Infinity Arrow Rope

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit down, boy, and mind the tar on that bench. You want the rest of it or not? Right. Your great-grandad Tobias had an anchor he called Patience, and he'd never let anyone else lower it. Eleven hours in a Dunmore gale he cut the cable twice, and both times it came back, wrapped round the same mooring post as if it had an appointment there.

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The harbour men said it was the tide. The chapel woman said it was something worse. Tobias only laughed and went out again the next morning, coil of rope over his shoulder, because a man who won't go back to sea ends up counting ceiling beams. He'd chalk the path on the slate so we could see it: up from the ring, across the crossbar, round in one long curve and back over itself. He said the rope never really ends, it just turns back where it must, and the arrows are there for the men who forget which way home is.

The winter the Brisk went down off the Skerry, his own boat came in on the flood with nobody aboard and the cable still hitched to the bow. They found the anchor later, dragged into the same bight on the sand, its arm pointing at the church. Nobody lowered it again. Your nan kept that chalk drawing in the back kitchen until the damp got it.

So when you tie off the mooring tonight, do it twice and look at where the rope lies. That's all I ever wanted you to take from it.