Rapido 40 Racer

Summary

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.

Dimensions

LOA

39.4 ft (12 m)

Hull length

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LWL

—

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

69.7 ft (21.25 m)

Displacement

9,921 lb (4,500 kg)

Ballast

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Cabins

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Heads

—

Berths

—

Sail Plan

Main sail

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Jib

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Genoa

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Sail area

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Downwind sail area

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Rig type

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Engine and Tanks

Engine

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Engine count

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Engine manufacturer

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Propulsion type

—

Fuel capacity

—

Fresh water capacity

—

Black water capacity

—

Construction

Mast material

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Hull material

infused foam/carbon sandwich

Deck material

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Keel type

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Rudder type

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Steering wheels

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Builder's Own Figures

OMR rating

94

Beam folded

5.8m

Rig

performance carbon rig, mast 19.5 m, 2.25 m longer than the Rapido 40 standard rig

MOCRA rating

1.435

Based on

adapted in-house from the Rapido 40 Cruiser; same hull and float shapes, C-foils and T-foil rudder standard

Displacement basis

weight excluding crew (4,500 kg)

Draft basis

boards up / boards down

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 4039.5 ft
6. Rapido 40 Racer· this model39.4 ft

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