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Originally Posted by Chris Bell
Damn sorry to hear that. Ranger 33s are nice boats and quite popular here on SF Bay. I used to own a Ranger 26. Both good Gary Mull designs
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Yep, it is a nice boat and I was really lucky to buy it. It was/is out of my socioeconomic range. I had flown to NY and gone to a rural marina to look at a 28' Lancer which was pushing my size and $$ limit. A friend who was with me started wandering around the yard looking at boats and talking to the manager. He said the owner of the Ranger was getting out of boating and was selling. A little investigation revealed he had actually already gotten out of boating. Rather than facing the trouble of selling the boat he had donated it to a charity located 50 miles away that typically accepted donated cars. They had not seen the boat, knew nothing about boats, were not interested in seeing the boat and only wanted to get if off their hands. They were asking X. I offered 1/2X, contingent on a survey. They accepted. Survey revealed a few minor problems and price was reduced further. Ended up paying considerably less for the Ranger than the Lancer I had originally gone out there to see.
The biggest boat I had sailed before I got behind the wheel of the Ranger was a 12' Hobie Holder. Fair amount of pucker factor initially until I figured out that apart from docking, sailing a big keelboat is easier than sailing a Holder.