You can still have that type of sailing. If you go to the options, then go to display setting, pick high preformance, then log off, then log back on, then tell me how AWESOME your graphics look! Lol! Go sailing and it will be like the old times
You may experience lag, because the game is focusing more on graphics than the preformance of the game itself, but first i would try going to a quieter server.
Let me know how that works for ya!