The sole maritime touch in her garb was a figured kerchief at her throat similar to those worn by the piratical crew.
"All ready, Hortense--all ready Jose and Gaston, get your places." Miss Baxter acknowledged the command with that characteristic little wave of a hand that he recalled from so many of her pictures, a half-humorous, half-mocking little defiance.

She used it often when escaping her pursuers, as if to say that she would see them in the next installment.
The star and the two men were now in the cabin, hidden from view.

Merton Gill was no seaman, but it occurred to him that at least one of the crew would be at the wheel in this emergency.

Probably the director knew no better.

Indeed the boat, so far as could be discerned, had no wheel.
Apparently when a storm came up all hands went down into the cabin to get away from it.
The storm did come up at this moment, with no one on deck.