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| Builder: |
Danish Yacht |
| Interior Design: |
Glade Johnson Design |
| Architecture: |
Fred Elliott, Reichel Pugh, Studio Scanu |
| Exterior Design: |
Glade Johnson Design |
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Like several of the year’s award-winning yachts, Ranger easily could have taken
more than one prize. We chose to reward her for the really hard work that went
into her creation. Any J-class yacht would be seductive and it would be as hard
to imagine Glade Johnson not delivering a beautiful interior. But if you set out
to build on the lines of history’s fastest J, your challenge is daunting. At any
turn her owner could have made the project easier by accepting a boat that
“looked” like a J, but compromised to contain costs, or to avoid Lloyds, MCA or
J-class Association rules. He never settled for almost, and neither did the team
involved in building her. From a hull so true she needed less than three
millimeters of fairing, to engineering innovations for complex gear never
envisioned in the original, Ranger is an unprecedented and laudable effort.
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