Specifications
General Details
- Length overall (LOA): 16.1m (53ft)
- Length of waterline (LWL): 15.2m (50ft)
- Beam overall (BOA): 10.36m (34ft)
- Freeboard: 1.67m (5.5ft)
- Twin rudders: 1.13m (3.3ft)
- Daggerboard up: 0.67m (2.2ft)
- Daggerboard down: 3.94m (11.5ft)
- Average light displacement (subject to final options): 9,350kgs (20,613lbs)
- Headroom in saloon and cockpit: 2.0m (6.6′)
- Headroom in forward cabin: 1.91m (6.27′)
- Floats – Storage volume (at greatest dim.): 4.9m (L) x 1.0m (W) x 1.3m (H)
- Beneath cockpit – Storage volume (at greatest dim.): 1.3m (L) x 2.7m (W) x 1.2m (H)
- Air draft: 26.56m (87ft)
Download high resolution pdf files:
- Rapido 53XS Layout drawing (20 August 2025)
- Rapido 53XS Main Storage Areas (2 October 2024)
- Rapido 53XS – Safety, Escape Hatches & Watertight Bulkheads (1 October 2024)
Sails
- Main: 117m2 (1,259sqf)
- Jib / Solent: 73m2 (786 sqf)
- SA Staysail: 25m2 (268sqf)
- Reacher: 150m2 (1,615sqf)
- Asym Spin: 230m2 (2,476sqf)
The Rapido 53XS
The “Xtra Space” of the Rapido 53XS is for sailors requiring three cabins without unduly compromising performance.
*** Rapido 53XS – XS as in Xtra Space, Multihulls World Magazine, by Dick Sawyer, 14 September 2024. ***
Morrelli and Melvin have achieved this outcome in the XS by retaining the same efficient shape of the Rapido 50’s hull at the waterline level – and extending it. Above the waterline, she flares out to support an expansive deck at the cost of just 800kgs to the boat’s overall weight.
Other Features
- No centre dagger board: two C curve pre-preg carbon dagger boards,
one on each float hull - No centre rudder: twin fixed pre-preg carbon rudder blades, one on each float hull that extend to the lowest point of the main hull to facilitate access to shallow water.
- Three cabins / two heads / additional informal sleeping arrangements which ensure the sailing experience is generously shared.
This version is non folding.
Email your interest
To enquire about the Rapido53XS, email:
The Rapido 53XS offers a number of storage areas around the vessel, each offers a huge amount of storage space.
In addition, all bulkheads are watertight and there are no thru fittings below the water
line.
Video below: watch the 53′ XS hunt and chase down a 75′ monohull before quickly leaving it in her wake (fom ARC Rally, November 2025).
Video below: Picomole, Rapido 53XS #01, finishes in 2nd place in grand style (behind an 86′ cat) in the Aegean 600, 2025.
RAPIDO 53XS
RAPIDO 53XS in the media
Below is a list of articles which have appeared in various publications regarding Rapido Trimarans.
- Crossing the Drake. Picomole reaches Antarctica, Sail-World.com, 15 February, 2026
- Antarctica under sail: Aldo Fumagalli’s account from the Deep South, Vela Magazine, 10 February, 2026.
- Multihulls out of the Chorus for 2025, Vela Magazine, 3 January 2026
- ARC Rally, Antarctica and a New Trimaran, Interview with Picomole Owner and Skipper, Aldo Fumagalli. FareVela, 22 November 2025
- ARC Rally, Italians on a roll under the ‘Trade Wind: Picomole (R53XS) and GG in the lead, Vela magazine, 27 November 2025
- Brand New Rapido 53XS Tour – Inside scoop, Barefoot Doctors Sailing video, 16 June 2025.
- Rapido 53XS – A Trimaran that Competes with… Catamarans, Norbert Cochin, Issue 199, Multihulls World, December 2024.
- Rapido 53XS Blends Performance and Comfort in a Unique Package, George Day, Cruising Compass, 20 November 2024
- Rapido 53XS First Look: A trimaran with proper living spaces for comfortable sailing, Yachting World Magazine, 15 November 2024
- Rapido 53XS, Video tour by Multihulls World magazine, 13 October 2024
- Rapido host much anticipated launch of first Rapido 53XS, Sails magazine, 1 May 2024
- Rapido 53XS – a peak speed of 24 knots during initial sea trials, by Emmanuel van Deth, Multihulls World, 19 April 2024
- Rapido 53XS, the new 16m globetrotter of a trimaran, by Aldo Fumagalli, Vela magazine, 24 January 2024
- First look – Rapido 53XS, a 20 knot cruiser, by Toby Hodges, Yachting World, 29 December 2023
- Video. The Rapido 53XS: Tour, review and ideas, by Naval Gazing at Camp David, December 2023
- Rapido 53XS Review, by Yachting World, 9 November 2023
- Shipyard Focus: Rapido Trimarans, by Kevin Green, Multihulls World, August / September 2022.
- Rapido, changing the game, by Zuzana Prochazka, Sail Magazine, 23 March, 2022