Folding floats:
- Access to single marina berths
- Access to all marinas
- Reduced marina, hard stand and shipping costs
- Maintains stability of trimaran in folding position and during folding
Discover the all-carbon, folding, Rapido 50.
Specifications
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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
- Download the Rapido 50 General Specifications (10 January 2022)
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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The Rapido 50 – True Blue-Water Performance, Perfectly Proportioned
The Rapido 50 sets a new benchmark in performance cruising trimarans. Sharing the same DNA and build quality as the flagship Rapido 60, the R50 offers true blue-water capability in a more accessible, easily handled size — ideal for couples or short-handed sailors.
Built using infused carbon foam sandwich construction, with key structures such as beams, daggerboards, rudder case, and blade made from prepreg carbon cured in an autoclave, the R50 is both light and exceptionally strong. Its optimized weight distribution, placing heavier components like the engine amidships, enhances stability and seakeeping offshore.
Designed for effortless control, the R50 features a self-tacking jib, roller-furled headsails, and a spreaderless mast, making it easier and safer to handle without sacrificing speed. With CE Category A certification, it’s engineered for confident ocean passages.
Inside, the interior reflects the same attention to detail found on the Rapido 60, while folding floats reduce marina, hard-stand, and shipping costs.
The result: a lighter, faster, and more manageable trimaran that delivers big-boat comfort and performance in a sleek, efficient form — ready to redefine what’s possible in a 50-foot blue-water cruiser.
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
Download these pdf files
- Rapido 50 Interior Arrangement (24 July 2018)
- Rapido 50 Sail Plan (29 August 2019)
Further details – Rapido 50
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RAPIDO 50 in the media
Below is a list of articles which have appeared in various publications regarding Rapido Trimarans.
- Shipyard Focus: Rapido Trimarans, by Kevin Green, Multihulls World, August / September 2022.
- Rapido 50 wins “Multihull of the Year” 2022 by Multihulls World magazine, 21 April 2022.
- Rapido, changing the game, by Zuzana Prochazka, Sail Magazine, 23 March, 2022
- Boat Review: Rapido 50, Kevin Green, Boating New Zealand, November 2021
- Harnessing Speed, by Kevin Green, Boating New Zealand, November 2021
- Harnessing the wind, by Kevin Green, Multihulls World, September / October 2021 issue, 6 page spread on Rapido Trimarans.
- Rapido 50 News from the Shipyards, Multihulls World, 2 February 2021
- Buyers’ Guide 2021, Rapido 50, Multihulls World, 18 December 2020
- “New breed” Rapido 40 & 50, Yachting World magazine, November 2020