I fully agree with the sentiments expressed. In my case, [which is all too common,] I ran out of budget. I also ran out of the physical ability to do the necessary work through arthritis. It was a real battle to maintain the Old Tart until she could find a new custodian to keep her in the style to which she had become accustomed. Forbsie has a very good point in asking "to what point in the ship's 'life' do you restore her?" I certainly wasn't going to replace the live fish well which originally would have taken up the middle [and best] third of the hull; that is now a very comfortable saloon. So I elected to 'preserve her' in a form which suited the use to which I wanted to put her; a cruising yacht. So she became an Edwardian-style cruising yacht, with no outward show of electrickery, save a radio antenna at the top of the mizzen-mast if you looked up there.
Peter.