Possible Clues:

• Want solid boat
• Difficult craft to find in adversity
• Lack of life's necessities, a tough time
• Severe discomfort, a tough time
• Have to put up with this 11 across, perhaps
• Parish had somehow to avoid a disaster
• Severe difficulty or suffering
• Far from tender attending vessel in distress...
• Austerity - affliction
• Frigid winter, to a pioneer