GUEST (23 May 07 - 06:38 AM),

"...At lest the one at Irvine in Scotland is still the original unlke the cutty which isn't..."

That is until the preventative conservation team have to remove all the infested timbers (insect and fungus)which cannot be saved, and then all those timbers which are too degraded to be consolodated in place (possibly removed and conserved seperately as too structurally weak to stand up to loading by the restored structures).
Then there will be all the material added to the existing hulk (as Terribus put it "...The "Carrick" currently rotting quietly away in Irvine ..." - I doubt that she's in a particularly sound condition, let alone having masts stepped), so we can add masts and spars, rigging and fittings.

Now, you were saying about the relative 'originality' of the two ships? - If Carrick/City of Adelaide were to be restored to any accepible standard* she would be no more nor less 'original' than Cutty Sark.

W


* Cutty Sark was restored
Mary Rose was conserved
Just a quick illlustration of the difference, but restoration cannot occur without some degree of conservation (otherwise it becomes something else).