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I, also, try for Quiet servers most of the time. I would also agree that until they've finally eliminated unwanted visitors aboard our ships, then you have to learn to keep a weather eye on your compass for blue hulls as well as red. That is one more advantage of preferring the war sloop when I solo, I'm never far from my helm.
I try for Quiet servers because that improves the overall stability of the game for me pretty substantially; however, you don't necessarily need a Quiet server to find open space on the seas.
To use a regularly recurring example, the coast off Padres Del Fuego is a nice, busy place to find ships worth sinking; however, when you log into a Quiet server you may find 1-3 ships already trying to work on Boiling Bay. Meanwhile, you could log into the busiest servers and never run into any problems working against the Phantoms on The Hinterseas, or by skirting down the west side of PDF and then west across the southern edge of Mariners Reef and the Leeward Passage (you can also usually sail away from PDF by bearing northwest along the seam between Boiling Bay and Mariners Reef, then begin to turn south near Outcast). Similarly, you can often sail around the east side of Tortuga into the Salty Flats, and find some nice targets with no one else around.
EDIT: When you sail solo frequently, you develop timing for rocking the boat just as your surprise visitor is about to fire, so their shots don't usually land for them. It would actually take multiple stowaways working in an organized way to have much of a chance of landing a shot on a ship, unless I give them the shot to take with my ship's position (or, of course, if they jump on in heavy traffic).
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