Luck of the Irish: An Irish Sea Ferry Crossing

Ask Raven.
The wise one listens and answers with song.

In this ledger entry, Raven circles above the Irish Sea on Boxing Day—a gray and green crossing where history, labor, and patience converge. A working ferry moves through winter water carrying hundreds, unaware that routine is about to be questioned.

This is not a story of spectacle.
It is a story of pause.
Of power lost, anchors lowered, and time stretched thin.

Ask Raven reflects on what “luck” truly means at sea—not as charm or chance, but as alignment: preparation meeting restraint, skill meeting timing. The Irish Sea has seen countless crossings, and it keeps account not only of what is taken, but of what is allowed to pass.

Listen closely.
Some stories are loud.
Others leave no mark at all—except in the ledger.

ASK RAVEN — LEDGER SERIES
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What you forget, Raven remembers.
Through fire and embers, Raven remembers.
Nevermore. Nevermore. Nevermore.

Ask Raven — the wise one listens, and answers with song.

A lone sailor crosses the Tasman Sea under brutal conditions.
No crew. No engine. No certainty.
Only discipline, endurance, and the quiet weight of time.

When the mast is struck and direction is lost, the sea does not rage.
It waits.
And waiting becomes the test.

This spoken-word sea story reflects on survival, restraint, and the moments when rescue is not loud — only earned.

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What you forget, Raven remembers.
Through fire and embers, Raven remembers.
Nevermore. Nevermore. Nevermore.

Ask Raven — Ship in Distress: Boxing Day Rescue on the North Sea

Ask Raven — where the wise one watches from above and memory moves like wings over water.

On the North Sea, Boxing Day doesn’t mean leftovers or quiet houses. It means short daylight, winter seas, and choices that matter. A fishing vessel loses power. No storm, no flames—just silence, and winter removing the margin.

Raven circles above.
Not to judge, not to interfere—only to remember.

This is the story of hands finding hands across cold water,
of trained calm instead of panic,
and of a rescue measured not in noise,
but in will.

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What you forget, Raven remembers.
Through fire and embers, Raven remembers.
Nevermore. Nevermore. Nevermore.

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Ask Raven.
For the wise one listens,
and answers with song from winter waters
where memory drifts and clings.

Each year, as the cold tightens its grip on Lake Michigan,
sailors speak of a ship that never finished its voyage.
A schooner bound with evergreen trees.
A deck glowing softly in snow and fog.
Seen only at night.
Gone by morning.

Some say it is a ghost ship.
Some say it is caught in a loop —
forever returning,
forever unfinished.

In this Ask Raven short,
I circle above the lake and tell the tale
of the Christmas Tree Ship
and the silence that follows her wake.

Listen closely.
Winter remembers what the water keeps.

What you forget, Raven remembers.
Through fire and embers, Raven remembers.
Nevermore. Nevermore. Nevermore.

AskRaven WeekendTrilogy EP3 | Three Days Adrift — Blind Survivor & the Ghost Crew

Ask Raven.

I circle above the waters where memory does not sink.
Where storms keep names.
Where the sea remembers every crossing.

In the dead of winter, a halibut longliner goes down in Hecate Strait.
All hands are lost… except one.

For three days, a single man drifts alone in a survival suit, blind from seawater, telling himself the same thing again and again:
Hold on until dawn. Rescue will come.

What he does not know is that the sun is already rising.
He simply cannot see it.

On the third day, helicopters are launched — not to rescue survivors, but to recover bodies.
Instead, they find a living man.

And in the darkness, while he waits for a dawn he cannot see, something else comes for him across the waves:
a small wooden dory,
three silent men rowing without sound,
a crew not meant to save… but to collect.

This is a story of survival, belief, and the thin line between holding on and letting go.

What you forget, Raven remembers.
Through fire and embers, Raven remembers.
Nevermore. Nevermore. Nevermore.

Ask Raven.
For the wise one listens and answers with song.

In Weekend Trilogy Episode Two, Raven circles above Seymour Narrows,
a narrow throat of water where tides move faster than thought
and the sea keeps its own count.

This spoken-word episode tells the true story of the Miss Joy,
a fishing vessel that entered the Narrows in darkness
and rolled for the third time.

A cook was trapped underwater inside an overturned ship.
The current was violent.
Air was fading.

Then a diver entered the wreck.

What followed was a miracle rescue —
a moment of courage pulled from impossible conditions
and returned to the surface.

This is a spoken-word sea story about survival,
about timing,
and about the rule of three the sea seems to obey.

What you forget, Raven remembers.
Through fire and embers, Raven remembers.
Nevermore. Nevermore. Nevermore.

Ask Raven.
For the wise one listens and answers with song.

This is Episode One of the Ask Raven Weekend Trilogy — a spoken-word sea poem drawn from a true coastal encounter near Bella Bella.

On a birthday night aboard the PE-224, a phantom gillnetter appeared in dark water and led six souls toward unseen rock.
What followed was not a chase of speed, but of memory — a ghost boat moving faster than it should, guiding the living toward danger.

Told from above by Raven, this story blends maritime lore, Indigenous memory, and poetic narration, echoing the rule of threes that runs through coastal history.

Three nights.
Three stories.
One voice that never forgets.

What you forget, Raven remembers.
Through fire and embers, Raven remembers.
Nevermore. Nevermore. Nevermore.

🪶 ASK RAVEN — WEEKEND TRILOGY EP3

Memory returns on the winds above Reid Pass.

In this final chapter of the Weekend Trilogy, Raven circles the water where three lives met a glow not born of lantern, moon, or tide. A cousin kneeling in silence. A green orb drifting from the forest. A beam of living light that moved with intention.

Raven watches as the rule of threes reveals itself again:
three coats, three who walked into stone, and now three caught in a moment where memory bends and time slips thin.

This episode follows the path of the memory that vanished…
and the moment it came flooding back.

If you’ve ever lost time after witnessing something strange, or felt a knowing strike you before your mind could name it, Raven invites you to listen closely and consider the pattern.

What you forget, Raven remembers.
Through fire and embers, Raven remembers.
Nevermore. Nevermore. Nevermore.