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The Ranger is a sailing ship of J-class with an overall length of 41.2 m, built in 1937, after drawings by Olin Stephens and Starling Burgess. The Ranger valiantly defended the US trophy in 1937, winning the 16th edition of America' S Cup by crushing the challenger ship Endeavour II by 4 victories to 0. The Ranger was the first sailing ship to have largely profited from technology transfers of the areronautics field, with in particular the use of aluminium for the 47 m mast with an elliptic section, the bridge port-holes in light bakelite, and the sails in synthetic rayon. Thanks to this indisputable technological lead, Ranger was victorious 34 times out of the 37 regattas it ran.
A faithful copy of this sailing ship was recently built and launched (2005), to appear in regattas between these legendary sailing ships.
Short History of Half-Hulls: With the origin before becoming an object of marine decoration, the half-hull was a working tool for the carpenter of navy which was used of model and plan for the realization of the layout of the boat.
The half-hull, represented with the 1/20ème, is still used nowadays. The half-hulls were often offered, by tradition, to the owner of the boat or were exposed to the building site.
The half-hull was a block of wood made up of an assembly of small planks carved by a carpenter to determine the future shapes of a boat. The small planks could be dismounted to visualize the watermarks. They made it possible to take measurements necessary in real size on the ground of the workshop in order to establish the layout of the frame.
The half-hulls of the Adze are carried out to leave various wood turpentines (paddouck, chestnut tree, wenge, mahogany tree...), on the old riggings (launches, barges, lobster boats, tuna boats, shelly, bisquines, sinagos, cutters...) or on the beautiful and prestigious sailing ships (Pen Duick, Shamrock, Endeavour, Requin, Dragon, Ranger, Britannia...).
