mariner *
seaman
tar
Jack-tar
Jack ****
old salt
seafarer
gob
sea dog

This literary reference took me aback coming from an old salt.

For all his years on the sea, he looked more like an English professor than an old salt.

Dan says "the old salts say you can set your watch by it."

"I must have some old salt in my veins."

Being incidents in the life of an old salt.

The old salt was not shy with his observations.

He passed his splinter to the next man, and the old salt pried off another.

And, like many an old salt, the birds can work up a thirst.

With that he poured the rest of the rum into the old salt's glass.

"He's an old salt," the young woman said, throwing her arm around his shoulders.