2002 Corsair Marine Corsair F31 Center cockpit — New Bern, NC

A 2002 Corsair F31 center cockpit at New Bern, North Carolina, asking $86,400 through 180 Marine. The F-31 was Ian Farrier's flagship for Corsair Marine — the production development of his plans-built F-9A, built from 1992 to 2013, over 300 hulls across the variants — thirty-one feet of trimaran opening to 22.4 ft of beam and folding back down to a trailer. The center-cockpit version is the cruising reading of the design: helm moved amidships, an aft cabin entered straight from the cockpit — the variant drawn for owners going somewhere rather than around the cans.

Two honesty notes. We hold no sister ship, so there is no like-for-like benchmark for the asking. And against the wider folding-tri shelf, $86,400 sits high: among the trimarans under $100k we track, two Corsairs undercut this one while beating it on age or size. What the money buys that they do not is the aft-cabin layout in the flagship hull, lying on the US East Coast.

The next doors are worth naming. The bluntest is the 2003 Corsair 36 in France — nearly eight feet more trimaran, a year newer, $7,976 less, if an ocean between you and the survey does not disqualify it:

Closer to this boat's size, the 2009 Corsair F28 R gives up two and a half feet to gain seven years, at $7,560 under:

And where budget is the instinct, a same-year Corsair 28 at Long Beach asks $44,000 — the same vintage, one size down, for roughly half the money:

But if a folding tri with a real aft cabin is the point, nothing else on this shelf carries the layout — this is the one to survey first: