I love customizing stuff in videogames and when I saw ships skins in this game I was very happy.
Sadly, there are aspects that needs more love and one of these is the Sloop canopy with that patch.
I don't know if the Sloop was intended to be the ship of the poors during the initial game design, but applying skins with ornaments, fires, dragons and demons all around and then still having that mending on the back seems a bit too weird. It seems like that canopy is permanently damaged and you cannot repair it, and that's not good. Remove that patch PLEASE, at least when you use skins, and apply the same sail deisgn to the canopy tissue as that would make the ship A LOT more cool with just a little effort from your side, I don't think it would requires months of work.
Make the Sloop to appear fully good looking please, it's nowdays the most used ship as tons of players play solo and duo.
Also, it would be time now to give us new ships. Same sizes, same mechanics, same everything, but new looks (chinese, vikings, whatever) that we can freely swap. They would give a very big refresh to the game.
