yeah, i just stayed on that bridge thing, they cant get get ya! any trouble, wack em, but only once....

They attacked me when I tried the bridge...
That's why I stayed on the veryyy front of the ship.

Well, I found it impossible to beat all of the enemies on the ship-thing in Tall Plains.
So I started looking around for some other way to go on.
The ship moves when you're on almost any part of the ship.
What I did was go to the small island thing above the platform where you come back to try the fight again, then jumpedon those posts. I flew over to the left side of the ship.  You will fall off of the ship if you do not keep jumping towards  the ship while on that little spot.  Keep jumping until the ship is slightly above these other grassy areas, then fly over onto them.  Then you can continue without having to beat all of the people on the ship!