This sounds like it could be fun. Consider me interested! As for a character... how's an uneducated, hotheaded rigger/sailor sound like?

I was thinking she'd be the daughter in a line of lowly sailors, who decides to take to the seas after a huge argument broke out between herself and her mother. When she'd heard of the ship sailing out into new lands, she had managed to weasel her way on and sign on as a rigger. Her... charismatic personality might have had something to do with it.