Name: Ranger

Type of boat: Crowthers Catamaran; designed by Lock Crowthers, built in 1986 in Oregon.

Dimensions: 71 feet long, 32 feet wide. Aluminum-hulled, doublemasted with dual diesel engines. Air compressor on board. Carries two inflatable boats powered by new minimally polluting, 4-stroke outboard engines.

Accommodations: Can berth 14 and carry provision for six months.

Layout: Large gran salon. Full-size navigation and communication center. Large galley.

Deck Layout: Tennis court-sized deck. Trampoline, water catchment on coach roof, broad cockpit with fresh-water shower, covered pilothouse, skiff cradle and salt-water shower on poop deck, steps ans swim steps on transoms, removable dive platform.

Electrical: 12V DC: 120 amp alternators, Heart 120A battery charger, solar panels, wind generator. 110VAC: Northern Lights 8KW, Heart inverter, belt-driven AC generator.

Mechanical: Isuzu diesels ( 2x150 HP ), Hurth transmissions. Counter-rotating feathering MaxiProps. Extra pair 3-blade propellers. Dual ram hydraulic steering with destroyer wheel.

Navigation: 2 RADARs, 2 GPS plotters, 2 HFs, 2 VHFs, 2 depth sounders, 2 station autopilot, SatCom, WEFax.

Safety: 406 EPIRB, Liferaft, Flares.

Deck, Rigging: Stays'l ketch rig. LaFiel main and mizzen masts. 2 Profurl furlers for heads'ls, 2 winches, 4 Barient halyard winches.

Sails: Main w/3 deep reefs, mizzen, 130, 110, stays'l, drifter.

Ground Tackle: Maxwell-Nelssin electric windlass. Anchor with 300 foot chain and anchor with 150 foot chain and 400 foot rode.

 

History: Custom-built in 1986 for Seventh-Day Adventists as a hospital ship, the Ranger is unique. It was designed to be a workhorse of the oceans: safe, toug, reliable, comfortable, cheap to operate and eminently seaworthy. The Ranger had been traveling through Micronesia on medical and church missions and crossed the Pacific a dozen times before it became Oceana's ship.

Safety: The Ranger was built to American Bureau of Ships ( ABS ) standards, the most stringent in the world. The vessel has 10 watertight compartments, and even if the two largest are flooded, it can still make way safely under sail or motor. The Ranger can cruise on either diesel alone and it can get home on either mast alone.

Toughness: Unlike commercially built vessels, the Ranger is made almost entirely of marine alloy 5086 aluminum, a corrosin-resistant material that welds to almost 100 percent strength, instead of the 65 percent strength for the corrosive 6061 extrusions used in other vessels. The Ranger could run hard aground on its 5/16-inch bottom and pound for hours in the surf without violating its watertight integrity. LeFeill, builder of high-tech tubing for spacecraft, engineered and built the sailing rig to withstand any 1/4 inc in some stress areas.

Reliability: Every system has a backup: there are three GPS systems, five ways to generate DC current, two ways to generate AC current, two fathometers, two anchoring systems with multiple means of weighing anchor, two HF radios and two VHF radios. There is a Sat-Com system that provides e-mail via satellite and permits the home office to track the vessel at all times.

Economy: Drinking water can be made from seawater, caught from rainwater or taken aboard from shore.

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