sailing and firing cannon?

[ASuperStitch]

OK I am about to go nuts here.

There has to be a way to sail and then choose to battle a ship that I am missing.

The only way I know to switch from the helm of the ship to the cannon is to hit the tab key, wait an insufferable time for the lag to catch up, then click on a weapon such as the sword or gun. This releases you from the helm position and allows you to move to a cannon and click ctrl and be prepared then to fire the cannon. By then the ship I want to engage has moved quite a distance away and I have to follow the same method in reverse to get back to the helm and chase after him.

Surely there is a better way to get from the helm to the cannon. Or, can you fire the cannon while still steering the ship?

This is driving me crazy.

Help??!!

Are there game rules and ways to use stuff posted by Disney somewhere? Have they given us anything to tell us how things work or is it all just guesswork? If it is guesswork this is a sorry way to launch a new game and not many will keep an interest for long.