Rapido 50

Summary

Best Suited For

• Bluewater Cruising

  From the published figures: CE Category A · LOA 15.24 m · fresh water 300 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

50 ft (15.24 m)

Hull length

—

LWL

49.9 ft (15.2 m)

Beam

33.6 ft (10.24 m)

Draft (min)

2.2 ft (0.67 m)

Draft (max)

11.5 ft (3.52 m)

Air draft

82 ft (24.98 m)

Displacement

18,850 lb (8,550 kg)

Ballast

—

Cabins

2

Heads

—

Berths

—

Sail Plan

Main sail

—

Jib

—

Genoa

—

Sail area

—

Downwind sail area

—

Rig type

—

Engine and Tanks

Engine

38.5 hp (Yanmar)

Engine count

1

Engine manufacturer

Yanmar

Propulsion type

shaft drive

Fuel capacity

79 gal (300 L)

Fresh water capacity

79 gal (300 L)

Black water capacity

32 gal (120 L)

Construction

Mast material

—

Hull material

infused carbon foam sandwich

Deck material

—

Keel type

—

Rudder type

—

Steering wheels

—

Builder's Own Figures

Engine

Yanmar diesel, 3JH5E, 38.5hp, shaft drive

Headroom

in cockpit area (no ceiling liner) 2.01m; in saloon (ceiling liner) 2.0m; in forward cabin and head area (ceiling liner) 1.91m

Cabins

forward cabin and aft cabin (general specification)

Beam folded

5.8m

Beam, float to float centrelines

9.29m

Sail areas

Main: 97m2 Solent: 57.5m2 Staysail: 27.9m2 Reacher: 150m2 Asym Spin: 230m2

Holding tanks

2 x 60 L

Freeboard

1.67m

Displacement basis

average light displacement, subject to final options (8,550 kg)

Draft basis

boards up / boards down

Layouts & Drawings

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

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  R50-interior — Rapido Trimarans

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  Rapido-50-Sail-plan — 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 50· this model50 ft
5. Rapido 4039.5 ft
6. Rapido 40 Racer39.4 ft

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