@StratBLUF@thegeneralboard The only really successful one is the Intrepid, Hornet and NJ. The Texas is doing pretty good considering.
The Olympia is in dire need of work though, but the ISPM is doing as good of a job as possible.
@SpeculatorArt Ah yes. My mom who did personal transport, did the laundry, did the cooking, brought me to OT/ST. She had a full time job. What did my dad do? Pretty much nothing.
@ConservFurry99@TJ_DarkRage Also it easily could go up once in dry dock. The Texas has cost 75 million to restore when including the full hull rework and paint job
@ConservFurry99@TJ_DarkRage Except today with inflation and docking fees it's closer to 2 billion and that was not accounting for adding original style decorations.
Is still a lot of money government wise that can go to you know, Healthcare?
@ConservFurry99 The Queen Mary was way more important. If you want to really support a good cause, support the ISPMs Olympia. It's the oldest iron hulled protected cruiser in existence.
@Big_Coug@ConservFurry99 Yeah. It was transfered to the city due to mismanagement. They had to scrap a Soviet sub as well. The Queen Mary is particularly complicated because when it was docked they ballasted it with concrete.
@ConservFurry99@TJ_DarkRage They are building a land base museum using its funnels. That said the cost that was estimated to restore to sailing was 500 million dollars.
@FemRailfan@sams_station@GeorgeRoush Actually they didn't want to be fully restored. With RXR they wanted a museum space with no changes to get external design