I made it to safety! Altough I never felt I was in danger :)
Like others said in the comments, I also first failed to create a boat and sailed with nothing at all, nothing was hitting me ofc so I thought game bugged out I restarted it but I was actually winning the game that way too. Then I figured out how to build the ship, and sailed again. That wasn't a challenge either. Dodged a few barrels and wreckage, then found out I can just leave the screen on the sides and obstacles just fly through.
Having a build and then sail phase is a neat idea but I'm not sure about the implementation. I liked the visuals except some of them looked like you scaled them up or something so resolution was low for them.
Dock's topdown and characters 2D view was weird :) but it wasn't a huge issue.
Thanks for the entry. Hope to see better implementations of your great ideas!