Rapido 40

Design

Naval architect

Morrelli & Melvin

Summary

Best Suited For

• Bluewater Cruising

  From the published figures: CE Category A · LOA 12.03 m · fresh water 200 L

• Performance Cruising

  From the published figures: performance cruiser · 2 cabins

Tags are derived from certified class, length, sail area, accommodation and tankage using the criteria described on the Sources page; an editor may add or remove one.

Sailing Ratios

Classic yacht-design ratios worked out from the builder's published figures, each shown against the bands designers read it by.

Most builders publish a light displacement. The ratios were defined on a loaded boat, so every boat here reads a little lighter than a surveyor's figure would — all alike, which keeps them comparable.

Tanks

What the builder publishes about how fast, how strong and how much the boat carries.

Dimensions

LOA

39.5 ft (12.03 m)

Hull length

—

LWL

39.4 ft (12 m)

Beam

28.9 ft (8.8 m)

Draft (min)

2.9 ft (0.87 m)

Draft (max)

7.2 ft (2.18 m)

Air draft

64 ft (19.5 m)

Displacement

11,464 lb (5,200 kg)

Ballast

—

Cabins

2

Heads

—

Berths

—

Sail Plan

Main sail

—

Jib

—

Genoa

—

Sail area

—

Downwind sail area

—

Rig type

—

Engine and Tanks

Engine

29 hp (Yanmar)

Engine count

1

Engine manufacturer

Yanmar

Propulsion type

shaft drive

Fuel capacity

53 gal (200 L)

Fresh water capacity

53 gal (200 L)

Black water capacity

16 gal (60 L)

Construction

Mast material

—

Hull material

carbon foam sandwich (all-carbon)

Deck material

—

Keel type

—

Rudder type

—

Steering wheels

—

Builder's Own Figures

Sail areas

Main: 65m2 (wing mast area 7.0m2) Jib / Solent: 32m2 Staysail: 13m2 Reacher: 113m2 Asym Spin: 158m2

Electric options

Oceanvolt: Twin propulsion; Two single ServoProps

Engine

Yanmar diesel, 3YM30AE, 29hp, shaft drive

Cabins

two private cabins, aft cabin configurable as a double or twin

Holding tanks

1 x 60 L

Beam folded

5.8m

Mast height above DWL

standard carbon rig 19.5 m; performance carbon rig 21.25 m

Beam, float to float centrelines

7.98m

Freeboard

1.41m

Draft basis

boards up / boards down

Displacement basis

average light displacement, subject to final options (5,200 kg)

Layouts & Drawings

2 drawings from the builder's page: general arrangement, sail plan, profile.

• 

  R40-4-jpg — Rapido Trimarans

• 

  R40-3-jpg — Rapido Trimarans

About Rapido Trimarans

Premium production

Carbon performance trimarans designed by Morrelli & Melvin and built in Vietnam by Triac Composites, the yard co-founder Paul Koch set up in 2014 — the folding Rapido 40 and 50, the 53XS, the Rapido 60 and 63, a 40 Racer and the R500 ECO Power Cat.

Rapido, in the company's telling, began with a simple idea: there should be a better way to cross an ocean under sail. Co-founder Paul Koch had spent his life designing, building and sailing multihulls — he started in 1986 with OSTAC Yachts (Ocean Sailing Trimarans and Catamarans) and from 1994 to 2010 led Corsair Marine, helping turn the trimaran from a specialist craft into a respected form of performance cruising. With his business partner Richard Eyre he set out to build a genuine ocean-going trimaran that combined performance, safety, comfort and simplicity and could be run by a couple — not a racer adapted for cruising, nor a cruiser with performance added afterwards. Its stated mission is to build the world's best ocean-cruising trimarans. For the design they engaged Morrelli & Melvin, the California naval architects founded by Gino Morrelli and Pete Melvin, whose credits include two multihull America's Cup winners, Stars and Stripes in 1988 and BMW Oracle Racing's trimaran in 2010. To build the boats, Koch and Eyre co-founded Triac Composites in Vietnam in 2014; its facility about 45 minutes from the centre of Ho Chi Minh City, with large CNC and robotic machinery and an 8.5-metre autoclave, builds every Rapido exclusively.

The Rapido Trimarans Range

Every model Rapido Trimarans publishes, by length — where this one sits in the range.

1. Rapido 6363 ft
2. Rapido 6059.4 ft
3. Rapido 53XS52.8 ft
4. Rapido 5050 ft
5. Rapido 40· this model39.5 ft
6. Rapido 40 Racer39.4 ft

By the Same Designers

Boats this boat's designers also drew, for other builders too. Credits are grouped only where the names clearly agree, however each builder spelled them; an unclear one is left out.

Similar Yachts