What's more odd? That a lass would be on fire, or that Jack would teach a lass to steer? Though here anything is likely, and Jack surely had something else in mind with the lass.

"I've been on the Pearl this past year, since we took it back from the scoundrel Barbossa. But I've traveled with the Captain for many years now. Since I mustered out of the navy, and I found myself in need of an occupation."