Its like being glued to a trampoline. If you stop the boat and sit, you will go up and down and roll around a bit but you can just sit there until the storm passes, and it will, and you are exactly where you were before. I have sailed days without a storm and I have been caught in what feels like hurricanes. If I can't see, I just park it and alt-tab until it passes.

you can wear the light hat but its not much good out there. Neither would a torch, though. Lights don't help that far off.

IIRC the raider ship design was 100% symmetric so they just rammed up onto the shore, grabbed the women and sheep, then shoved off facing the other way, with the old back being the new front....