Two sentences?

1. His eyelashes were as long as any woman’s.
2. She steers a ship as well as any man and has a pretty face.

Excerpt From
A Dance with Dragons
George R.R. Martin

Hi. I wonder if both sentences can be interpreted in the same way?
Namely, for the first sentence, his eyelashes were on a par with the longest woman’s eyelashes. Or no woman’s eyelashes were longer than his.
For the second, no man steers a ship better than her, though there maybe men steer a ship equally well as her.
Thank you.