Captain Alfred Bulltop Stormalong was an American folk hero and the subject of numerous nautical-themed tall tales originating in Massachusetts.
[2] In one shanty, Stormalong is conflated with the historical figure Zachary Taylor:[3] New England was where he was beached as a baby, already three fathoms (18 ft) tall.
According to one telling, he outgrew Cape Cod and moved to Boston, where he signed aboard the first ship that would take him at the age of twelve.
As Stormalong grew older, he eventually encountered the Kraken again, this time successfully drawing the beast into a whirlpool from which it never escaped.
The aged Stormalong won the race by several miles, but the stress of handling the wheel through the difficult Atlantic crossing killed him.