If you feel so strongly about this then write to the governor. Write to your local leaders. Write to anyone who’ll listen.

In my honest opinion, USS Massachusetts isn’t in bad enough condition yet to warrant any sort of major spending. Her paint looks fine, her deck is worse for wear but what else is new on any of the museum ships with wood decks, she’s missing quite a few pieces but those aren’t likely to be returned anytime soon and fabricating them is difficult. Sure she likely has quite a few leaks in the superstructure but pretty much all the museum ships have those and no amount of money will ever stop them permanently. If anything at Battleship Cove needs money it’s the USS Lionfish. Her deck was so rusted out I felt like I was gonna walk through it onto the hull. The hull also looks terrible I wouldn’t be surprised if she does have leaks below the waterline.