Ranger Tug R-25

Alain, that is a story that makes my point on the sales value of the older boats. The guy with that boat found it for sale in Arizona and contacted me through Tugnuts. The boat had been stored on the trailer outdoors for years and was cheap but very faded and delapitdated. We discussed whether it could be brought back as he wanted a boat to live on in Mexico. After we discussed all it's problems and a path forward to solve them he bought the boat for almost nothing and fixed up the boat and trailer enough to get it down to San Carlos where he finished the rest of the repairs. Our boat was much newer and perfect so we got a good price for it and it now owned buy a diver across the bay in Santa Cruz.
You can always reach me through my member name E-mail I know you have spent a lot of time on the Sea with your C-dory and would be interested in your thoughts about it. Micahbigsur@msn.com I try to keep up with my Email.
 
Interesting to compare specs of R-23 with new R-25.

LOA motor down, R-23 is 28', 5" while R-25 is 28' even. With motor up LOA, R-23 is 29' 8" and R-25 is 29' 6".

While hull length on R-23 is 22' 8" and R-25 27' 5", which is 5" longer than the listed hull length of the R-27!

I believe that with this new design that Fluid is addressing customer's concerns about outboards and boarding from a dinghy by extending the swim platform area beyond the outboard.
 
The old R 25 was almost completely replaced in sales by The R27 so I wonder if the new 25 will replace both. We had to give up our 25' Tugs 25 foot slip as our C-Dory's motor was up and the prop was dinged by another boat. We had, after 16 years moved to the top of the list for a 30' slip so we moved the boat over last week and it is a perfect fit for our CD25. So these new outboard Rangers will require a 5' longer slip than our old Ranger 25.
 
Susan and I went to the floating show on lake union this saturday. last year for the show there. docks are going bye bye and condos are going in. The float show will be in Everett from now on.

But back to the boats. Ranger has added a 25 ranger out board. I think the 23 is not long for this world production wise. the 25 is just bigger (?) enough to be worth it. The biggest increase is in the head. You get a real door now. I still thing the 27 ranger outboard is the better boat. They have also added a larger swim platform on the back of the 25 and 27 that I find annoying. It will make adding a kicker hard and place the kicker further back then the main completely. It does allow for a bigger area to stand , board dinghy's and kayaks, and a nice swim ladder but it sticks out 5 plus ft from the stern. They have also come up with a tilting dinghy rake that places the dinghy over the outboards while on plane and then tilts down to allow easy deployment. Would make fishing a total hassle and I would not op of it.

I also go to look at the new 41fter. That this is huge.
 
South of Heaven":241ppnkf said:
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If you have to ask, you probably can't afford it? Rangers look pretty nice at the dock and at the boat show, even caught a fish or two off a friends. Just lost an hour looking at the 41 and my favorite "big" boat the Commander's from Vancouver. Have to go back to previous posters big experience and remember how easy maintenance is! Our mid-season mechanical was fixed in my driveway in an hour, with the help of youtube. The smaller single main engine Ranger looks like a great option for most.

Happy boat browsing everyone.
 
One thing I've noticed is that you don't see that many old Rangers for sale. Looking at Yachtworld and BoatTrader the oldest Ranger for sale is about 10 years old (with one exception). However, C-Dorys for sale can be 10 years older than even the Ranger exception. It is still common to see C-Dorys from the 80's and 90's for sale.

So either they haven't been building them as long as I think, there is a secret market for the older boats that is not on the internet, once someone buys one they rarely replace it, or after 10 years or so Ranger tugs are not worth anything and get scrapped (sort of like fancy German cars).

Since they say they have been in business since 1958, you'd think that there'd be some old ones around.
 
I believe the first big Ranger Tug, the 25 came out in about 2007. The 1958 origins claim is a bit deceiving as that is when they brought out their first production boat, the very popular Livingston tri hull dingy. Before the "new" company was formed in the early 2000s they only produced the little 21' Tug.
 
Micahbigsur@msn.com":26kplrr7 said:
I believe the first big Ranger Tug, the 25 came out in about 2007. The 1958 origins claim is a bit deceiving as that is when they brought out their first production boat, the very popular Livingston tri hull dingy. Before the "new" company was formed in the early 2000s they only produced the little 21' Tug.
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The first Ranger Tugs were the 21's and they were built by the same company that did the Ranger 21 Sailboats, and came around 2000. The "modern" Ranger Tugs came around 2005-6.

Harvey
SleepyC:moon

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I am pretty sure the Ranger Tug 21 EC was a Livingston family design whereas the Ranger Sailboat origin was part of the Jenson/Cal, Gary Mull designed group. There are 3 Ranger boat builders, the Tugs, the bass boats, and the sailboats. The Ranger 23s and 26s are still great little racing sailboats.
 
There is another line of Ranger sailboats that were built in Washington. Not as competitive as the Mull line but still pretty decent boats.
 
I believe that’s the first ranger 21 Tug was built in 1979 or 1980 by Howard Smith. This is about the same time as the first C Dory. However there was only a very transient time there was any relationship. That was during the Reynolds ownership of the C Dory brand.

The early 21tugs were displacement boats & very low power.
 
thataway":3f0eqkog said:
I believe that’s the first ranger 21 Tug was built in 1979 or 1980 by Howard Smith. This is about the same time as the first C Dory. However there was only a very transient time there was any relationship. That was during the Reynolds ownership of the C Dory brand.

The early 21tugs were displacement boats & very low power.
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That would be cool if you could buy a small displacement style hull these days. It seems that all the displacement hulls are usually on bigger trawlers (N, KK and Selene etc).

It'd be cool to see a 25 footer being made. I guess the biggest drawback would be a slow ride with hull speed based on waterline length. Lol
 
Jason posted---"That would be cool if you could buy a small displacement style hull these days---"

That original R-21 seems like a good candidate for an electric inboard as it was very efficient.
 
The very first of the 25s 05, 06, 07? Had a 75 horse Yanmar and were mostly displacement boats, I have always wondered what it would have been like if they had stayed with that instead of offering higher and more thirsty optional horse power engines. Our 25s fuel GPH started to spike at over 7.5 knots with the 150 hp.
 
Lets see if this works:

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The Original 21. Pretty good lake boat, but not something I would consider for crossing Juan de Fuca or the Straits Georgia or Johnston. Displacement and tiny Diesel inboard.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

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hardee":4bseeysk said:
Lets see if this works:

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The Original 21. Pretty good lake boat, but not something I would consider for crossing Juan de Fuca or the Straits Georgia or Johnston. Displacement and tiny Diesel inboard.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

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Harvey- I distinctly remember a discussion on this or one of it's former websites about how a group of Ranger EC 21 Tugs yearly made a trip together from the Puget Sound area up the Inside Passage to the Juneau area. Probably been 8-15 years, however. How time flies!

Joe. :teeth :thup
 
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