I'm not even hardcore sailer. I tryed it again after 6 months and here are few issues I encountered.

1.  Im again stuck in boat at docks and cant leave it. Spamming R button / Trying to anchor. Nope I need press escape again.
2. This is after I tryed find 8 hours for Maretta boss svitching channels. I did it actively trying to go map locations or afk riding listening music. I could afford to build 10 pens from base item easily but I can't find one base item????? Shouldn't difficulty be opposite? I used my day off from work to try to find my boss. Now, I need to wait another week before actively trying to find my boss again. YEI. Maretta is worst update this game ever had. Hopefully some more active person sells it in mp.

3. If I use continuously breeze sail I still get stuck everywhere. You could easily fix it for afk purpose or build alternative ability.

4. Lets talk about silver. This profession is semi-afk. People focus on word afk part but not semi. Basically you spend your active time trying to micromanage things. Thing is that if I spent that active time on grinding mobs instead I would got more silver/h in hexe or thornwood or even orcs. 

*Count time it takes to jump to dock and resupply with items and then sail back to island.

*Count time you click barter everytime on island and go back Ilya.

*Count time it takes to get to bank to sell items one by one...

*Count hours it takes to build carrack, doing dailies and bartering materials. This is period you are getting ZERO silver. This is actually one thing that no sailer will ever calculate. If you start sailing now from fresh account please count how many hours you spent to be carrack ready. I would never recommend this profession to brand new player.

5. Now I don't think silver/hour matters to people who love sailing content itself. Unfortunatelly this profession never get hardly any updates at all even though half of bdo world is sea content. Just semi-AFK vell with guildies. 

Because of very bad boat mechanics. 

Because everything aside from combat is a gimmick

You said it in your opening statement: you are not a hardcore sailor. Those who are are very familiar with the wharf bug. It absolutely needs to be fixed. But all you have to do is log to character select. To avoid it, pull straight out of the wharf, it's turning right away that gets your ship struck.

Breezy never was meant to be used to autopath, just like sprint on horses. You actually have momentum, it makes your turns wider and your stops take longer. You can mitigate this somewhat with sailors, but the real answer is that breezy is for battle, either with other ships or sea monsters. You can autopath in most places, and I will agree that it needs some attention in the places you can't. But you realty don't want to, it's inviting ship pvp you may not want, and that is well within the scope of intended gameplay. It's easy to escape pirates of you are paying attention, not so much if you set a destination and walk away. But you can't do that all the time on land either. 

The siren is a bit annoying to find, but plenty of people had their Manos log the very first day. It's a FAR easier thing to get than an infinite potion. 

Forget about making silver on the seas. AFK fishing and horse training are more lucrative. But nothing makes as much as grinding. That's more an overall game problem than a sailing problem. 

The real problems with sea content are desync and the lack of fresh content. Adding one boss and one fleet encounter in an entire year isn't enough. Ocean grinding for ship gear mats is incredibly tedious, and every method of getting crow coins is horribly slow. You need tens of thousands of them to do anything worth doing, and if you are lucky, you might get 2k on a barter cycle that takes days start to finish. It gets boring pretty fast.

yeah, it's sad how glitchy it is. It COULD be cool. It's just you'd think after years they would have fixed it haha. I dunno about the value of content because, yeah, it's hard to beat raw grinding, but I think if you are calcing your silver per hour all of the time, you're gonna go nuts. Sailing would be a nice thing to do for something different, but it's still wonky. And yea the whole building a carrack aiyeee. Well, to be fair I don't mind working towards things, but daily gates suck. There is a lot of ocean; they should make it a bit less TRASH. Gains, tho, I have no comment on that as I've not bartered once, only did a little joke smh. Just general let's go sailing though, it should be a fun experience, and it should have some reward as well! Not many games have SHIPS you know.

I've run into her 3 times while I was only trying to complete my Marg barter Routes.  My advice is STOP playing on ANY of the following servers:   Serendia 2/3/4/6,  Cal 2,  Cal 4, ANY of the Kamasylves beside #1,  any of the Mediahs or Balenos b/c you're likely to run into a Pirate with a NOL, and any of the Even-numbered Valencias either

I remember back in 2017 or 18 i made a boat. It was a huge deal then. Hard to get. And as soon as i landed it into the water i never touched it again. It has not gotten better. (techincally its parked at vell but obviously i don't do that because vell is any fun) And as jr212 said "everything aside from combat is a gimmick" and he is 100% correct.