Overboard...edit .0000001 brownlie

[Flowerchild1093]

The wildest seas had risen up the night that Donny died. This first sentence doesn't feel as though it's in the same tense as the rest of the poem, in my opinion. 
Close running to the western gales and on an awkward tide, Perhaps replace awkward with a more fitting word. A rolling tide, for example, maybe?
the Gina Belle had tumbled on Had feels like filler.
her stern was low, her going gone.
The tumult turned her round and round, Round and round seems repetitive. Maybe just narrow it down to one, or even just rephrase. (Spinning round?)
in waves that broke on jagged ground Rephrase?
no more than half a league away. The way this is worded feels out of theme, and out dated.
 
The bladderwrack flew in the spray as Donny fought the wheel.
The grounding shook her, jarred her straight, pinned her by the keel; The grounding?? I feel like this line needs some restructuring. Too run-on.
Again, again, again she skewed Is again x3 necessary? Perhaps something different like "Over and again".
until her timbers cracked and flew
("in shards that rained upon the deck,
or what was left, until she wrecked") I really enjoy this particular verse, it has a nice feeling about it.
upon the heartless granite shore. The shore? It just doesn't feel to me like it should be wrecking into the shore because otherwise why wouldn't you have known it was coming? People don't captain vessels and then wreck into the shore instead of stopping before you get there.
 
Donny had thrown into the swell, unhitched his line, made free. Had thrown? What exactly do you mean by this??
Down deep he dove into the rage, in the hopes of calmer sea;  
("he swam below, some distance gained,
then burst for breath while wreckage rained") Love this verse, though I'm not sure that burst is quite the right word. Gasped?
around him, crashing everywhere.
The anchor hit him, hard and square
and Donny died a sailor’s death.
 I feel like this ending isn't complete, like it needs another sentence or something. (In the end; there's nothing left.)? 

tectak
2017

I hope this helps or is at least the appropriate type of critique you were looking for. First critique as a member of this forum. Overall I love the work as a whole! I just think it needs minor tweaking.