Discover the all-carbon, folding, Rapido 50.

Specifications

R50 interior
Rapido 50 Sail plan

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General Details

  • Length overall (LOA): 15.24m (50 ft)
  • Length of waterline (LWL): 15.2m (49.9 ft)
  • Beam overall (BOA): 10.24m (33.6 ft)
  • BOA (folded): 5.8m (19.0 ft)
  • BOA (float to float CL): 9.29m (30.5 ft)
  • Average light displacement (subject to final options): 8,550kgs (18,850 lbs)
  • Freeboard: 1.67m (5.5 ft)
  • Daggerboard up: 0.67m (2.2 ft)
  • Daggerboard down: 3.52m (11.5 ft)
  • Mast Height above DWL: 24.98m (82 ft)
  • Headroom in cockpit area (no ceiling liner): 2.01m
  • Headroom in saloon (ceiling liner): 2.0m
  • Headroom in forward cabin and head area (ceiling liner): 1.91m
  • Storage volume of floats (at greatest dim.): (L) 4.6m x (W) 1.1m x (H) 1.5m
  • Storage volume under cockpit (at greatest dim.): (L) 1.7m x (W) 2.4m x (H) 1.0m

Sails 

  • SA Main: 97m2 (1,044sqf)
  • SA Solent: 57.5m2 (619sqf)
  • SA Staysail: 27.9m2 (300sqf)
  • SA Reacher: 150m2 (1,615sqf)
  • SA Asym Spin: 230m2 (2,476sqf)

General Information

360 Degree Virtual Tour

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Rapido 50, 3D Virtual Tour
Rapido 50, 360 degree Virtual Tour. Click to play.

The Rapido 50 – The World’s Ultimate Folding Cruising Trimarans

Every exceptional product needs a source of inspiration. For the all-new Rapido 50, that source has been the Rapido 60 which has proven herself to be an exceptional trimaran for:

  • Podium performances
  • Fast passage-making
  • Classic cruising
  • Couples; and
  • Sailors

Critically, the Rapido 60’s DNA can be found throughout the Rapido 50. But where the Rapido 50 sharply differentiates herself is that she has the ability to fold the floats to slip into single berths at marinas.

Video above: Multihulls World magazine has announced that the Rapido 50 has won the Multihull of the Year Award for 2022 in the 45′-55′ category. The award was announced at the Multihull Show at La Grande Motte on 20 April 2022.

Advantages of the Rapido 50’s folding system

 

Folding floats:

  • Access to single marina berths
  • Access to all marinas
  • Reduced marina, hard stand and shipping costs
  • Keeps floats in upright position (no barnacles or algae on sides)
  • Maintains stability of trimaran in folding position and during folding

Folding mechanism:

  • High tech design by world-acclaimed multihull designers, Morrelli & Melvin
  • Patented Design (concept by Paul Koch, Australia Patent Application No. 2019902014)
The Rapido folding system is winch-assisted to take away, what some people say, the “back-breaking" strength required on bigger boats with other systems.

Summary of Rapido 50

The Rapido 50 sets a new standard in the market place. Upon its launch in October 2020, it will generate an enormous amount of interest and attention. Its benefits include it being:

  • Lighter
  • Faster
  • Easier and safer to handle with self-tacking jib, roller furler head sails and spreaderless mast
  • CE A Certification for safer ocean crossings
  • Better weight distribution with heavy items (eg engine) in the middle of the boat
  • Functional interior finished to Rapido 60 standards
  • High tech, infused carbon foam sandwich construction with beams, daggerboards, ruddercase and blade made from prepreg carbon and cured in autoclave
  • Folding floats (reduced fees for marina, hard stand and shipping)

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FAST AND POWERFUL

Trimarans are safe, powerful and fast as demonstrated by the fact that they consistently win races and hold the solo speed record for circumnavigating the world.

safe

Safety at sea is the No. 1 priority and this thinking is reflected throughout the design and construction of the Rapido.

spacious

The Rapido has some truly amazing living spaces which provide more open, private and intimate areas than monohulls or catamarans.

stable and comfortable

Trimarans are comfortable on all points of sail.

fun

The combination of safety, performance and comfort put the Rapido in a league of its own. The enormous trampoline nets add fun and excitement as you watch the blue water rush underneath you – or as you lounge on the nets while gently floating over a reef. You will be instantly hooked.

look inside the   50

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50 IN ACTION

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– in the media

Below is a list of articles which have appeared in various publications regarding Rapido Trimarans.

  1. Shipyard Focus: Rapido Trimarans, by Kevin Green, Multihulls World, August / September 2022.
  2. Rapido 50 wins “Multihull of the Year” 2022 by Multihulls World magazine, 21 April 2022.
  3. Rapido, changing the game, by Zuzana Prochazka, Sail Magazine, 23 March, 2022
  4. Boat Review: Rapido 50, Kevin Green, Boating New Zealand, November 2021
  5. Harnessing Speed, by Kevin Green, Boating New Zealand, November 2021
  6. Harnessing the wind, by Kevin Green, Multihulls World, September / October 2021 issue, 6 page spread on Rapido Trimarans.
  7. Rapido 50 News from the Shipyards, Multihulls World, 2 February 2021
  8. Buyers’ Guide 2021, Rapido 50, Multihulls World, 18 December 2020
  9. “New breed” Rapido 40 & 50, Yachting World magazine, November 2020