[She's sipping her own tea a little nervously at that question.]

Well... to be honest my experience with sea travel was not as a ship captain. I was part of a fleet that sailed across the sea during the war against the Valmese Empire, and fought in a rather decisive battle while on that ship.

However, one of the people who has joined our crew is a vice-admiral of a navy fleet in his world, quite capable in training recruits in the ways of sailing.