Ranger: Recreating a Racing Legend

Waitsfield VT: Concepts Publishing, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. Light shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book; no jacket. With a list price of almost 6 million dollars "The stunning 41.55 metre J Class sailing yacht Ranger, listed for sale by Ann Avery at Northrop & Johnson, has been sold in an in-house deal. She was built by Danish Yachts and delivered in 2004 as a replica of the famed J Class yacht that won the America's Cup in 1937, her naval architects Paolo Scanu, Reichel-Pugh and Fred Elliott working with the original lines of William Starling Burgess and Sparkman & Stephens..A departure from the original, she carries a central cockpit, doghouse and luxurious mahogany interior designed by Glade Johnson, boasting four cabins aft for an owner and six guests, with three en suite bathrooms. Her saloon features a formal dining table to starboard and leather seating to port while forward through a watertight bulkhead is the galley to port and the crew dinette to starboard. A cosy cockpit for up to eight guests with a teak table is just behind the teak clad carbon fibre deck house.Lloyd's classed and MCA compliant, Ranger is powered by a single 425hp Lugger engine giving her a range of 1,800 nautical miles at eight knots under power."---Boat International, 11/15/20018. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!