Not just damaged, I fear, but effectively destroyed. There's been some stuff in the meeja about how much of it - the mast and half the planking, for instance - was away for restoration, and some about how the damage looks worse than it is. But it does look pretty damn appalling, and for once I find myself siding with the sturm und drang commentators screeching about nautical annihilation.
Given proper funding, they'll probably have a decent reconstruction, incorporating features of the original, at some point. But I think calling it the original might be a bit of a strech. I'd love to be proved wrong, of course.
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on 2007-05-21 04:35 pm (UTC)Given proper funding, they'll probably have a decent reconstruction, incorporating features of the original, at some point. But I think calling it the original might be a bit of a strech. I'd love to be proved wrong, of course.