Letter From a Clipper Ship Sailor

This letter was recovered in a floating glass bottle in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle on a dark and stormy Blue Moon Halloween night 10-31-2020 during the midnight Neuston net tow of the SSV Corwith Cramer: sea.edu/ship-b...
The ballad takes inspiration from a gamut of nautical lore including Frederick William Wallace's 1914 ballad "The Log of the Record Run" (better known now as "The Mary L. McKay"); Captain Irving Johnson's 1929 film "Around Cape Horn"; bountiful legends of the Sargasso Sea (perhaps typified in Thomas A Janvier's 1898 novel "In the Sargasso Sea"); the mythology of the Kraken; and the infamous trans-Atlantic slave trade. As well as my own experience aboard the SSV Corwith Cramer.
Written and read by Brother Elijah
Filmed by Brother Colin