in cities you can run into people who give you nautical quizes. One of them gave me for the right answer location of a statue, that is suppoesed to help me with ship repairs. In vanilla game it provided +30 to repairs, but since these statues, idols trinkets...whatever no longer provide any bonuses, it would be good to replace the statue with an equivalent book, or just something so the journey pays off... (I know you're trying to focus on balance, so this can be postponed)
I thourght these had already been done in GOF 1.0, no matter if you tell me where this was that you was ment to find this trinket and i will look into replacing it with a book when for you.
So I found it again. I met the guy in Cumana. For answering the question he said the Statue is in "Chiricolagoon" west of Portobelo. You can find there a Statue (In describtion it says: "A stone mask. Looks very antient, yet flawlessly crafted by a real master craftsmen. Weigh 35.0") - but as said before it provides no bonus to the "Repair" skill.