Sail tattoo ideas

104 photos and flash · 33% Traditional, 24% Realism · Forearm most common

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Black and grey flash sheet drawing of a sailing ship on waves, two swallows, an anchor and a telescope, with the script phrase Between the Devil and the deep blue Sea beneath.
Sailing ship, swallows, anchor and telescope flash
Blue pen sketch of a sailing ship inside a bottle, with a kraken's tentacles reaching up from the waves beside it.
Ship in a bottle with kraken sketch
Blue ink drawing of a traditional sailing ship in heavy waves, with a curling banner on the left reading LOVE IS LIKE A TIDE BRINGING YOU HOME, intended as a tattoo design.
Sailing ship and banner design
Pencil flash design of a pirate ship under a compass rose with Tinker Bell and shadowy figures, above the words Second star to the right and straight on till morning.
Pirate ship and compass rose flash design
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing a striped lighthouse, a sailing ship and stormy waves framed inside a ship's wheel, in a traditional nautical style.
Lighthouse and sailing ship in a ship's wheel
Traditional flash sheet of ten coloured sailing ships on green waves, with banners reading Hell Bound and Home Ward Bound and a few small stars and a rose.
Sailing ship flash sheet
Black line drawing of a three-masted sailing ship with billowing sails among curling waves, shown as a flash design rather than on skin.
Sailing ship in rough waves
Black and grey flash design of a three-masted pirate ship with a skull flag, surrounded by pirate-themed lettering and a shark.
Pirate ship with lettering flash design
Black ink pen drawing of a three-masted sailing ship on hatched waves, with a dotted line falling to a small anchor, on plain off-white paper.
Sailing ship and anchor pen drawing
Black ink line drawing of a three-masted ship on hatched waves with a dotted line to an anchor, above the script words Life's roughest storms prove the strength of our anchors, on crumpled paper.
Ship, waves and anchor with script quote
Pencil sketch of a sailing ship inside a bottle with a rope-wound cork, drawn on white paper as a tattoo design.
Ship in a bottle pencil sketch
Purple line drawing of a three-masted sailing ship with full sails cutting through stylised waves, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Sailing ship on waves line drawing
Black line drawing of a three-masted sailing ship with billowing sails above a cluster of roses and leaves, in a traditional flash style.
Sailing ship above a cluster of roses
Pen and ink sketch of a sailing ship whose hull forms a dripping skull, drawn on an open sketchbook page.
Skull ship pen sketch
Black ink pen drawing of a sailing ship on rough waves with a dangling anchor and the script words a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor, on white paper.
Sailing ship and anchor with quote
Line drawing of a sailing ship on paper, with blue, yellow, pink and maroon watercolour splashes behind it, shown as a tattoo design sketch.
Sailing ship with watercolour splashes
Black ink sketch of a sailing ship with loose brush strokes and splatters, drawn as a tattoo design on pale paper.
Sailing ship with ink splashes
Pencil drawing of a woman in powdered 18th-century style hair, with a sailing ship and octopus tentacles rising from her head.
Woman with a ship and tentacles in her hair
Sepia pencil drawing of a three-masted galleon with billowing sails, torn pennants and detailed carved stern, shown as a tattoo design.
Galleon under sail
Black line drawing of a sailing ship above a curling banner reading IT IS NOT DOWN ON ANY MAP TRUE PLACES NEVER ARE, with waves below, in a traditional style.
Ship and banner quote design
Black line drawing of a sailing ship, tentacles, waves and an anchor with a banner reading I am the captain of my soul, shown as a traditional-style tattoo design.
Ship and anchor flash with captain banner