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RANGER J-Yacht
The "super J" that totally dominated the trials and
America's cup races of 1937
After the 1934's loss against Rainbow, Thomas Sopwith
returned in 1937 with Endeavour II which is leaner and
meaner than her predecessor. Nonetheless, she proved no
match for the boat that was one of the America’s Cups
all time greats. Ranger clearly won all 4 races!
Ranger
was the first America's Cup yacht developed through
model testing in a towing tank. Tank tests results
helped Ranger to depart sharply from conventional J boat
practice. She
was
revolutionary in design. No
boat had previously approached the maximum size
practical for a rating of 76 under the modified
Universal Rule as
Ranger
did, thus the nickname "super J".
Ranger
totally dominated the trials and Cup Races of 1937.
Of 37 starts she won 35.
She was more
refined in every aspect. Her afterguard under the season and canny Vanderbilt benefited hugely from the
presence of Olin Stephens and his brother Rod, probably
the finest racing seaman who ever crewed on a yacht.
Sail trimmer was Arthur Knapp, who later won thousands
of races in all sorts of boats, and the navigator was Zenas Bliss of Brown University. Mrs. Vanderbilt,
an able sailor herself, was always a participant.
Ranger's race in 1937 marked the end of an era — it was the last
America's Cup contest for 21 years and marked the end of
Big Class racing. As war loomed J-Class racing and
building drew to a close. By 1946 all the American
Js had been scrapped for war materials.
Endeavour and Shamrock V survived. They have been
restored. The impressive sight of these sexy
and majestic yachts racing against each other was
relived last year at the America’s Cup silver jubilee.
The last 20 years have seen a huge resurgence of
interest in the J-Class. There are plans afoot to build replica of Ranger.
This Ranger J-yacht model features:
-Scratch-built
-
Beautiful woodworking
-Superior hollow hull
construction (very important)
-All wooden and metal parts
18" (46 cm ) long x 26"
tall
$1,700 
S & H is $90
out of stock
38"
long x 57" tall x 7" wide $2,500
S & H is $220
out of stock
These models are out of
stock but we have a different version of the Ranger
here:
https://www.modelshipmaster.com/products/sail_boats/Ranger-J-yacht.htm
Or if you are interested
in the first J-yacht, the Enterprise, please click on
this link:
https://www.modelshipmaster.com/products/sail_boats/enterprise-j-yacht.htm
If
you only care about extreme premium quality for your
proud display, please click on this
link
to learn more
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