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No ocean conservation group would be complete without a presence on the water. Custom-built in 1986 for Seventh-Day Adventists as a hospital ship, Ranger was donated to Oceana by one of our boardmembers, Steve McAllister. Since then, it has sailed from the Pacific to the Mediterranean gathering invaluable research and documenting illegal fishing.


Name	Ranger
Type of boat	Crowthers Catamaran; designed by Lock Crowthers, built in 1986 in Oregon.
Dimensions	71 feet long, 32 feet wide. Aluminum-hulled, doublemasted with dual diesel engines. Air compressor on board. Carries two inflatable boats powered by new minimally polluting, 4-stroke outboard engines.
Accomodations	Can berth 14 and carry provision for six months.
Layout	Large gran salon. Full-size navigation and communication center. Large galley.
Deck Layout	Tennis court-sized deck. Trampoline, water catchment on coach roof, broad cockpit with fresh-water shower, covered pilothouse, skiff cradle and salt-water shower on poop deck, steps ans swim steps on transoms, removable dive platform.
Electrical	12V DC: 120 amp alternators, Heart 120A battery charger, solar panels, wind generator. 110VAC: Northern Lights 8KW, Heart inverter, belt-driven AC generator.
Mechanical	Isuzu diesels ( 2×150 HP ), Hurth transmissions. Counter-rotating feathering MaxiProps. Extra pair 3-blade propellers. Dual ram hydraulic steering with destroyer wheel.
Navigation	2 RADARs, 2 GPS plotters, 2 HFs, 2 VHFs, 2 depth sounders, 2 station autopilot, SatCom, WEFax.
Safety	406 EPIRB, Liferaft, Flares.
Deck, Rigging	Stays’l ketch rig. LaFiel main and mizzen masts. 2 Profurl furlers for heads’ls, 2 winches, 4 Barient halyard winches.
Sails	Main w/3 deep reefs, mizzen, 130, 110, stays’l, drifter.
Ground Tackle	Maxwell-Nelssin electric windlass. Anchor with 300 foot chain and anchor with 150 foot chain and 400 foot rode.

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"When I read what Oceana did, how they tried to pursue their goal, what they do and what they achieve, I was so impressed. I thought, well, maybe there is something I can do to support these guys. Most of the free divers, because the experience of free diving is so much more intimate, than the scuba diving, so they're all kind of conservation mindset people. I see that I could deliver the Oceana message to them." -- Martin Stepanek, champion freediver