http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31336
--- Comment #11 from olelukoie olelukoie@mail.ru 2012-12-25 12:42:56 CST --- Have you tried to enable an option "Auto Upgrade Ship Design in Queue"? I've not yet updated the game under Linux (prefer to play it under Windows), but playing versions prior to 1.0.45 I've always got the same error (with the same backtrace) immediately after enabling this option (you don't need to start new game at all).
Another way to reproduce this bug is to run the game under winedbg and try to load *any* previous save. This is strange but if the game is run without debugger then loading the same save usually works normally.