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The sailing ships of J-class have a length of water line ranging between 23.15 and 26.5 meters, a maximum overall length of 36.6 meters, and a mast of 50 meters maximum. The J-class was defined in 1920 to avoid the race to gigantism of challengers of the America Cup.
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.
