Originally posted by Archdeacon Monseigneur:

thats a cooler solution than simply "remove wind" and gives us some more NPC interaction.
i think dvergrs are currently really under-utilized.
we should be able to spend gold to hire them as guards or ship crewmen

Hiring NPCs has already been denied.

Using the player characters, or perhaps summoned skeletons, as rowers could work. But paddling already exists. It's just a matter of waiting and seeing what comes.