Ranger Tugs R-27 on the Intracoastal Waterway - Factory Films
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- Ed and Elaine speak with us about their trips south from Annapolis to Florida in their Ranger Tugs R-27 via the Intracoastal waterway. Ranger Tugs are trailerable cruisers from 21 to 31 feet that are made in the USA and ready to cruise anywhere. Quality Cruising! More info at rangertugs.com
Love your video. Such positivity.....Clearly years of Loving each other. I hope to go off into the sunset like you guys! God Bless! Doc in Charleston SC
I pray you 2 are still out there enjoying life, eachother and that cool boat.
I too wonder where life has taken them... bless them both
My husband & I retired this year & just bought an R-27. Can’t wait!!!
What a lovely couple, I hope they are still both enjoying that sweet little vessel.
" 2 steps from the bed to the fridge ", Ed has life figured out !
These folks are adorable-and they are living the dream in my opinion.Stay safe out there and thanks for the uplifting video.you may have changed someone’s idea of retirement.✌🏼
Love your enthusiasm, energy, positive attitude. Keep enjoying life to the fullest. Wish I was there!
By the way, nice boat!
i live pretty close to the pamlico river and this makes me want an R27 even more :).
That was a wonderful video! As an (unlike Ed) aging sailer these boats are becoming appealing, and I found this video and information you shared very interesting.
Keep going guys .......never stop until you reach that limit!
Just do it. Enjoy your life. Greetings from Europe - Austria.
A beautiful heart warming video full of inspiration. Thankyou from Australia
beautiful people injoying life
YOU GUYS DID GREAT!!! Love the video!
Great job explaining; good luck; for many years to come!!!!!
Perfect R-27 ⛵ for me too! Hope to see you out on the water.
Best promo for Ranger Tugs wish I had the money to buy one.
Very inspiring. Awesome couple, Awesome boat. Thank you for sharing.
My God you people have touch my heart
Great couple, great boat, and good advice.... enjoy, greetings from The Netherlands
Adorable is the word.
What a very lovely couple.
Great video, I wanna go buy one now!
Thank You for video, very helpful and encouraging.
My future home. I can not wait.
Very good video. Thanks
Tks for sharing. Wish you many years of happy boating
Awesome guys
Wow! I'm impressed! I am look for a boat for loop and I think I found it! Plus gkids in South Fla will love it!!
They stopped making the model shown here and replaced it with a more-modern design. The new R-27 uses a Yamaha gasoline outboard instead of the diesel inboard of the old model. The essentials of the "trailerable trawler" are still there, but it has a different look and feel. There are often a number of the "classic" R-27s for sale around the country, but if you're interested in the new one, here's a short video: ruclips.net/video/ybRT8UD9gK0/видео.html
That is so beautiful
Wow you know how to enjoy life.
Excellent video, and Go Bucks!!
nice video.greetings from barbados,fair winds and following seas.bravo zulu
Nice couple...
Some people know how to enjoy life, enjoy retirement. Good to see and learn from.
Nice video! Thank you for sharing! What's the range typically on your boat and or others of the Ranger Tug line?
Thanks for the video... we recently added an R27 to our family... starting the Loop next month... loved the shelf at the bow end of bedroom, did you make or order? Do you by chance have the measurements?
Very nice!
Dear lord I just don’t wanna get old haha
This is my only dream and goal in life is to own one of these
I am single and found this would be great for my little family (t and dog).
That was a great video,. thanks.
Awesome couble
Good for you guys !!!!
Sounds awesome
3 years later, would you advise this type boat for a new, but 65-year old sailor?
Good video, thanks.!! ✅
So...four times on the ICW. Any plans to do the Great Loop? If so, I'd love to see a video log of that trip!
@SeikiBrian just my opinion, if you are considering the great loop, please do your research.
Going counter clockwise, the area starting at the Illinois River and into the TemTom is pretty crappy. The ICW from Florida through Canada’s Georgian Bay is nice. The parts I did not mention are okay. Although a few hundred boats per year loop, most skip the crappy part, doing the right half of the loop over and over.
I’m not familiar with a R-27 having a built in generator. So, that means spending nights at marinas with shore power or skipping air conditioning, microwave (as mentioned in this video) and power hungry items like computers. This is why R-27’s and pocket cruisers often turn back after completing the Trent locks in canada.
Its a pretty little boat, with a limited range of 400 miles at 7 knots or 200’ish miles at -displacement- *planing* speed, limited storage for provisions, lack of redundant systems, and lack of ships power. These limitations keep this boat at arenas where amenities are offered and you are never beyond a few hours from rescue.
It has its place, such as the ICW or Washington / North West, and is easily handled, but its not a serious long range cruiser like its larger siblings. Its not a particularly well suited boat for the Great Loop. Possible? Yes. Practical? Well, perhaps not as practical as other alternatives.
(Edited to correct mistake / typo)
@@DougAlesUSA "I’m not familiar with a R-27 having a built in generator."
The R-27 in this video was the classic R-27, with inboard diesel engine. A diesel generator was a factory option. The new R-27 is available from the factory with high-capacity lithium-ion batteries that can power the microwave oven and even limited A/C use when anchored or moored away from shore power. Proper route planning will have you spending your days and nights in the regions with the most-favorable climates at different times of the year. The America's Great Loop Cruisers' Association has numerous trip planning guides to aid in just such route planning.
@@seikibrian8641 thank you for catching my error. I have edited my above post, crossing out displacement and the bold addition of planing speed.
As far as using lithium ion batteries in place of a generator for air conditioning, please know I started my post by stating its my opinion.
I’ve owned boats with a generator and boats without. Batteries, even lithium batteries, when used for power hungry applications such as air conditioning have limited capacity. Once exhausted, how are you planing on recharging this battery? Head back to a marina for shore power? Run the main motor and use a beefed up optional alternator?
Although boating without a generator is better then not boating, for extended cruising and overnights away from the marina, at anchor, or tied to a wall without amenities, its my personal opinion based on my experience that a generator and a real mattress are my two “must haves” or I’d rather just get a hotel room. Not a battery, not a fan, not some seat cushions laid flat on a table that goes down. In my younger days, I did the sleeping bag on the ground in a small tent thing. Not anymore.
Sounds like we are each boaters, and each have opinions. I respect you even with us having different opinions.
Since Covid hit, I’m amazed by how many marinas have suddenly become filled with new boats owned by first time boat owners who never use their boats. I wish someone would make some videos warning new, first time buyers about common first time boat owner gripes these days.
I’ve been boating long enough to know these things go in cycles, and we are, in my opinion, at a supply / demand imbalance that will end at some point.
Last Saturday, I drove three hours to a marina in Sheboygan Wisconsin to help a freind remove their boats generators starter solenoid (and starter.) He tried and tried to get a local service center to do the work. All marine mechanical service busienss in his area are booked full until next year. Its early September. So we are talking months away. This issues is not unique to Sheboygan Wisconsin.
For closure, he is exploring rebuild vs replaced options. Once he gets it rebuilt or replaced, I’ll repeat that three hour drive to reinstall the generator stater and solenoid.
Now lets pretend this happened to me. What would I do if I was on a extended voyage and my generator solenoid went bad? I wound not have the correct onboard replacement parts to fix it, but I do have crimp terminals, spare wire, and know how to jump the solenoid to get the generator running. Sure, I’d need to open the engine hatch and manually touch some wires together each time I wanted to start the generator until I was able to get replacement parts, but I’d have my air conditioning, microwave, coffee maker, be able to charge the vessels batteries , and charge my electronic devices such as phone and tablet.
On extended cruises, with my own well kept boat, I’ve needed to, and have been able to replace impellers, idle air control valve, head system duck bill valves, removed and cleaned good enough to get by the heads ball gasket, motors serpentine belt, various fuses, light bulbs, and more.
Right now, if you can not DIY Do-it-yourself maintain and basic repair, I suggest people considering a first time boat purchase wait. The industry is simply out of marine service bandwidth. Yet the boat agent salespeople seem to not mention this issue to first time boat buyers.
Again, these are my opinions based on what I am seeing today.
Sounds like a great lifestyle.
Greetings from Sweden
Go Bucks!
The shirt at 6:36, go Bucks!
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do they have a youtube to follow their journeys?
Does it get hot at the helm due to all that glass?
I know this video is old, but thought I'd ask anyway....I've read that the ICW run from Kimmswick, Missouri to Paducah, KY. is 200 miles with no gas in the middle. Curious if anyone has thoughts how to take a ranger RT27 OB (range arguably 150ish miles) through that portion of the ICW?
Hi Sean, that stretch is not a problem for the R-27. With the 150 gallon tank you can expect to easily surpass 200 miles with a fair amount of reserve, just manage your speed and efficiency accordingly. This performance report from Yamaha should give you the information you need for approximate range at various speeds: rangertugs.blob.core.windows.net/media/1607/rgt_r-27_f300uca_2017-06-28_owa-performance-sheet.pdf
@@RangerTugsFactory Thank you! I'm really a fan of your tugs and will end up with one soon. I appreciate your kind and quick answer!
What about fuel costs though? I'm sure that can run quite a bit running up and down the coast.
Would these boats be good for cruising the Caribbean or would the range be inadequate? Do you know of any that have been used for that purpose?
+Brian Werner I believe on most Rangers you can consider 200 miles to be the absolute maximum. If I have it confused, it's actually less. I had it all figured out at one point but that was a while back. They are beautiful boats though. You could cruise eastern Caribbean very easily with one.
+billiondollardan Thanks for the reply. I really love the Rangers and Cutwaters. I would like something capable of cruising the Caribbean while still being economical to run and easy to handle.
As with all semi-displacement designs, range varies widely depending on speed. At a planing speed of around 15 to 16 knots @ 3600RPM you can expect about 200 nautical miles. Drop down to a moderate displacement speed of 7 or 8 knots @ 2100RPM and you can get just over 300nm, and at a leisurely 5 to 6 knots @ 1500RPM you'll be near 500nm. Of course, at those lower speeds you need to pack your patience and have a large weather window, but Rangers aren't meant to be go-fast boats.
And a big fridge.
One day................... =)
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Is Ranger Tugs the same company that makes Ranger bass boats?
Hi Dylan, we're a different company than Ranger Bass Boats, however the original Ranger Boat Company location in Kent Washington is where both companies got started. We still operate out of that original facility along with 5 additional factories in Washington State.
@@RangerTugsFactory Very cool thank you!
Who in the right mind could give a thumbs done to this video? What is wrong with you???
Jealous people….ha!
Awesome guys
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