Possible Clues:

• Seafaring nuts go canoeing
• Canoe damaged before departing and crossing the pond perhaps
• One I can upset about game on board, good for long voyages
• Current drowning every other one in crew, as ploughing through deep water
• Like large ships
• Making one's way past shark's home before getting carried away by sea
• Officer commanding one aging irregular to be travelling overseas
• As a ship runs out of cargo, none, I suspect, good
• Travelling on the sea? Suitable for it
• Suited to the high seas