The captain is still on watch. And he never, ever drops anchor. Would you like a short version for social media or a dramatic monologue in the captain’s voice as well?
That figure is — or, as some call him, the Flying Dutchman’s eternal master . The Curse of Pride The story, first printed in the early 19th century but rooted in 17th-century sailor lore, tells of a Dutch East India Company captain so obsessed with rounding the Cape of Good Hope that he swore a terrible oath. the flying dutchman captain
Caught in a furious storm near what is now Cape Agulhas, his crew begged him to turn back. Van der Decken laughed. He swore by every devil and saint that he would round the cape, even if he had to sail until Judgment Day. The captain is still on watch