Coming soon

A new map of the Whydah.

The triangle trade, the three-day chase, the lee shore at Wellfleet, and Cyprian Southack’s hand on the chart that found her. A spatial telling is being built. It is not here yet.

Cyprian Southack’s 1717 chart of Cape Cod, the wreck of the Whydah marked near Wellfleet. — Southack’s New England Coasting Pilot — the chart Barry Clifford used in 1984. The red X you see on many reproductions is later; this is the clean Boston Public Library scan.

What you can follow now

The maps already on this site are the working draft of that telling:

The 19-stop flythrough — Devon to Ouidah to the wreck to Salem, on a globe.
Maps of the Whydah — Southack, Moll, live wind and shipping, and why flat maps lie.
Map Studio — pin a voice to a place, on a modern map or the 1717 chart.
The wreck & fleet — four ships, one storm, two outcomes.