We all know that anchors play a certain role in the safe docking of ships, so anchor lines also have the meaning of protection and guarding. This traditional meaning of anchor tattoo is still very common today. Compared with us, the meaning of sailor anchor tattoo is different. Norman Seiler, a world-famous "old-school father tattoo", and Jerry Rui Lin are nicknamed Jerry. His father and young son both have anchor tattoos. Since he was a teenager, he has been riding freight trains all over the country. In the end, he enlisted in the army and went to the Far East in the navy. He was obsessed with Asian art, image and culture for life. After settling down in the navy, Jerry completed the tattoos of sailors and soldiers who landed on Oahu and remote islands in Hawaii in the middle and late 1920s.
The main features of sailor Jerry's tattoo are bold lines and attention to details. Jerry often designs sailors' anchor tattoos, which means safety for ships and is also a symbol of safety for sailors. In the life of sailors, when they are at sea, they live and die with the ship. Anchor lines are more stable for sailors, so many sailors like to print the name of their mother or sweetheart when they tattoo anchor lines. Xiao Fang of Shenyang Wen believes that the legendary craft of sailor Jerry is considered to be a classic that cannot be broken so far.