Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:01:40 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:40:48 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

Better looking than a puke beige hole in the water.
With a dangerously low transom.

While I hate to agree with Harry about this (there, I said it), there
is a lot of bass boat thinking in this boat.

For some reason they built the bilge access hatch into extruded stern
right in front of the engine mount on the transom - it's about six
inches lower than the actual stern interior of the boat. Why they did
that, I have no idea.

You can see the stern from this image:

http://www.swsports.org/images/Ranger/Ranger06.JPG

The compartments contain the live well and batteries. Aft of those
compartments is where the swale begins and it is lower with the bilge
hatch right in front of the engine.

Oddly, I don't take a lot of water onto or over the stern even when
I'm backing to a sea - like when Scott and me caught a lure on a
lobster trap bouy lead. I've never been able to figure that one out -
the damn boat bobs like a cork anyway, but you would think with that
much engine back there hanging off the stern, you would.

Here's the rest of the pictures.

http://www.swsports.org/images/Ranger/Ranger01.JPG

http://www.swsports.org/images/Ranger/Ranger02.JPG

http://www.swsports.org/images/Ranger/Ranger03.JPG

http://www.swsports.org/images/Ranger/Ranger04.JPG

http://www.swsports.org/images/Ranger/Ranger05.JPG

Still better looking than a Parker. :)




Damn near perfect Florida flats boat if you lost the tee-top and put on
a poling platform. That front deck would be perfect for fly fishing down
there.

Ranger has always made interesting boats. The Florida dealer where I
bought my Sea Pros was also a Ranger dealer, and I always admired the
fit and finish of Rangers when I stopped by there.