Yaya Haku's flower won't regrow/All Pirates are nowhere to be found/ Game is freezing a lot

[NinGen]

Hello there,

it seems like I am not the only one with this bug right now. I recently purchased the game via GOG but it dosen't seem like there is a place to report bugs on their platform.

Right now I am stuck in the main quest because Yaya Haku’s flowers won’t regrow on my island after beeing challenged for the race with Ereti and losing to her the first time. I've been waiting for more than five days(in game).
I also noticed at the same time that some of the other resources on the island do not regrow or replenish like the herbs or the fish baits.

Which leads me to the second bug. All the pirates are nowhere to be found. I tried to use the quest menu to find their location on the maps, but if I go to the location, either by fast travel or by sailing all the way there, the place remains empty. I've read that they might come back after the race with Ereti, however I can't race with her right now because of the flowers not growing back.

I am wondering if one can be linked to the other. If the event of the race is triggering some of the characters not to spawn anymore, perhaps some of the ressources that were supposed to replenish we mistakenly included in the lot?

Unrealated bug: my game also frequently freeze completely (with everything including the time), crashes (The program just do not respond and shuts down) or only Koa and the other moving things freezes with the time still running. No specific action seems to trigger these bugs, they just happen multiple times during a game session of about an hour.
I have to exit the game each time by forcing the program to close. I tried running the Verify/Repair option via GOG Galaxy but nothing seems to change.

Here is a Google Drive folder containing my game saves as well as my computer specs in case you need them:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1t2xTyUpaJ8rBXD9gtugwiOTzyqXWvXAu?usp=sharing

Thank you very much for the attention!

[celia_equus]

I'm having the same issue. I've only found one pirate ship, and couldn't trigged conversation or commerce with it, no matter how many times I circled it and no matter the angle. I can't challenge Ereti to another contest because the flowers aren't regrowing. I've tried watering them, sleeping by them for multiple nights. Do I just need to exhaust myself near them? Do I need to sit on the roof of my house? Devs, help!