title: Ranger 29
text: # Ranger 29
  
  The Ranger 29 is an American sailboat, that was designed by Gary Mull and first built in 1971.
  
  The boat can be confused with the Philip Rhodes' 1960 Rhodes Ranger 29 design.
  
  ## Production
  
  The boat was built by Ranger Yachts in the United States from 1971 to 1975 and is now out of production.
  
  The design was replaced in production by the Mull-designed Ranger 28.
  
  ## Design
  
  The Ranger 29 is a small recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass. It has a masthead sloop rig, an internally-mounted spade-type rudder mounted on a skeg and a fixed fin keel. It displaces 6,700 lb (3,039 kg) and carries 3,130 lb (1,420 kg) of lead ballast. The boat has a draft of 4.67 ft (1.42 m) with the standard keel.
  
  The boat is fitted with a Universal Atomic 4 gasoline engine of 30 hp (22 kW).
  
  The boat has a PHRF racing average handicap of 186 with a high of 195 and low of 180. It has a hull speed of 6.43 kn (11.91 km/h).
  
  