Personally, I'm not a fan of most multiclasses - short of doing so before going into a prestige class as the primary class of identity. I feel they tend to be short-sighted. Then again, I'm also unfamiliar with the inquisitor and since it's a compromise class already (3/4 BAB, 6 spell levels), then perhaps my concerns are less valid. I've also never read into the Grey Gardener. I'll defer to someone who's familiar with inquisitors.
As for Undine or Tengu - I would choose the Undine, though I feel like either one would be acceptable. I personally don't think it's worth trading a -2 Str for a -2 Con and the ability to use an Elven Curved Blade (1d10, 18-20/x2), since that amounts to an increase in damage of 2 points compared to a Scimitar/Rapier (1d6, 18-20/x2). Another factor to consider is that a Scimitar can be used with Dervish Dance while an Elven Curved Blade cannot - so if you want Dex to damage, you'll have to wait until level 7 or 8 to afford a +2 sword, not to mention that you'll be 1 point behind in attack rolls and damages from that point forward (because agile costs you the +1). So you're really only gaining 1 point of damage, for a sacrifice of 1 point of attack rolls (which is not worth it at all if you do the math) but it does save you 1 feat at the cost of being completely reliant on a single weapon - which can disarmed, stolen, or otherwise taken away. At least with the scimitar, you can keep a backup masterwork scimitar and not be completely boned if somone takes your magical +2 scimitar. One thing on the Tengu's side is that it would be much simplr to get Power Attack, which is good if you plan to two hand your weapon instead of sword and shield. Then again, if you find yourself in a situation where using two hands is not feasable - such as grappled, swimming, climbing, or worse if you lose a hand/arm (these things happen in a pirate campaign), then the Elven Curved Blade is completely shut down. Also, you can two-hand a rapier/scimitar for the Power Attack bonus if needed, and then keep a buckler strapped to the arm for the rounds when you won't be attacking to get +1 ac - just a thought.
EDIT: As a player in the same game, I regret to inform you that our stats are 16, 14, 13, 11, 10, 9. There is no 12 - unless our DM changed his mind. (Note, I've been trying like hell to convince him to do so, lol.)
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I have a pirate cleric of Besmara in PFS, with the Trickery and Chaos (Protean) domains. Besmara also gives the War (Tactics) domain. All three of those have great level 1 domain powers, so you should take a look at them.
Other than that, I'm no expert on inquisitors, so I don't have much else to say.
Seems like a very strange array for a starting build at 18 points, not sure I would want to play in that and very limiting. Given that the suggestion to put the 13 in Wisdom, your primary stat is questionable. You would be limited to 3rd level spells until you raise your Wisdom and your saves are awful. I might suggest putting the 14 in Str and add the +2 to Wisdom making it a 15. So the stats would be
S: 14 D: 16 C: 11 I: 10 W: 15 Ch: 9.
Or if you really wanted to go finesse weapons only you could swap the S and C and have better HP.
I am running S&S and they had a hard enough time trying to survive the first module with a 25 point buy. I would not want to try it with less than 20. You need too many varied skills.
I'm the DM so I can explain the stat array which is more than 15 point which is the AP standard and what the devs used to make the iconics.
Each player rolled 4d6 drop the lowest. We have 6 players so bam that became the standard stat array for the campaign. The idea being one that this crew has used for 3 APs now. The idea we are going for is one to include the feel of rolling for stats but not have huge variance in stat array within the party.
I love the mop quarterstaff by the way.
lol NICE
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I suggest going with stats like
STR:16
DEX:11
CON:12
INT:13
WIS:16
CHA:9
Taking the lawbringer aasimar heritage for a bonus on intimidate. Also, if any domain grants you a familiar then take raven and say he is a parrot for flavor but has stats for raven. If you want to be a captain, leadership is nice, otherwise these could do. Note that i don't like finesse characters because it makes people who do very little damage think they do more because the always hit. swap dex and str. for if you finesse and take garuda-blooded. If you can't get a familiar then take a domain that relates to water or the sea or drinking.
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I'm just going to throw the [link=Cutlass]http://www.d20pfsrd.com/equipment---final/weapons/weapon-descriptions/cutla ss[/link]. Stats are martial one handed 1d6 18-20 x2. Stat Priority Str>con>wis>dex>int>cha. The heresy inquisition makes charisma moot (and goes with heretic). AC is going to be tough to pull off, and you're your stat spread isn't good for such a stat wide class. One of the Aasimar bloodlines are probably best for this, doing either con/wis or dex/wis (I don't remember a Str/wis).
Also, if any domain grants you a familiar then take raven and say he is a parrot for flavor but has stats for raven.
Why the re-skin? A parrot uses the same stats as the raven anyway and both can speak one language. The only difference is in the skill bonus, and +3 to linguistics sounds better to me than the raven's bonus to appraise.