Hoodoo Tall Ship Stories

You will find here a collection of some of my favorite hoodoo tall ship stories (ships with a jinx of bad luck) that I have authored and illustrated. I carefully selected some of my best stories with artistic figure-drawn ships' spirits. It is my hope that they will make an attractive display piece for any artistic home's coffee table and offer not just amazing old stories from the sea, but interesting designs and artwork to enjoy. Despite the ships having a jinx upon them, each ship saga relates a story of tragedy or injustice from the sailing era. There is bound to be at least one old sea story that catches the reader's interest. All of the stories are based on actual news events reported in 18th and 19th century newspapers. The unique angle to each sea yarn is that I retell the event from the perspective of the ship. Old sailors of the bygone sailing era, often believed their ships had minds of their own. They would refer to the ship as a she. When sea stories were retold, sailors would talk about a ship as if she was a live character in the story. Why not just make the ship a character; after all she was and is the most important character in all these sea sagas. She's the star of the show. When the weather has turned foul and storms threaten, it is the ship that the sailors all depend on to keep them alive. These tall ship stories are about stout-hearted men who went down to an unpredictable sea in ships that were sometimes malevolent, sometimes motherly. Rather than these being sea stories just about a bunch of men and ships, a feminine element can be present in the stories. By re-emphasizing the ship's place in the stories both men and women can relate to the sagas.