Complex sentence: One of the women was floating on an oar completely naked; she was brought on board the schooner wearing a pair of seaman's trousers and recounted the number of men she had had to fight off when they tried to take her oar.
Split into simpler sentences: One of the women was floating on an oar completely naked; she was brought on board the schooner wearing a pair of seaman's trousers. Later she recounted the number of men she had had to fight off when they tried to take her oar.