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Designer
  
Gary Mull

Year
  
1976

Boat Weight
  
5,081 lb (2,305 kg)

Location
  
United States

No. Built
  
130

Builder(s)
  
Ranger Yachts and Bangor Punta

The Ranger 28 is an American sailboat, that was designed by Gary Mull as an International Offshore Rule half-ton racer and first built in 1976. The design is out of production.

Contents

The boat was built by Ranger Yachts and Bangor Punta in the United States. A total of 130 examples were completed before production ended in 1978.

Design

The Ranger 28 is a small recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, an internally-mounted spade-type rudder on a skeg and a fixed fin keel. It displaces 5,081 lb (2,305 kg) and carries 2,792 lb (1,266 kg) of lead ballast. The boat has a draft of 4.50 ft (1.37 m) with the standard fin keel.

The boat is fitted with a Universal Atomic 4 gasoline engine of 30 hp (22 kW).

The Ranger 28 has a hull speed of 6.24 kn (11.56 km/h).

Variants

Ranger 28
Standard model, with a PHRF racing average handicap of 180 with a high of 177 and low of 183.
Ranger 28 TM Serial numbers 1-86
Early tall mast model, with a PHRF racing average handicap of 183 with a high of 196 and low of 174.
Ranger 28 TM Serial numbers 87 and later
Later tall mast model with a deeper keel, with a PHRF racing average handicap of 180 with a high of 180 and low of 186.

References

Ranger 28 Wikipedia