2009 Corsair 28 AC R — Lake Constance, Germany

A 2009 Corsair 28 AC R asking $78,840 — the lead names no location and no broker, so where she lies is the first question for the seller. The yard's signature is the whole boat: Ian Farrier's folding system tucks nearly twenty feet of beam to trailer width beneath 28.4 ft of hull, on the F28 R platform Corsair Marine built from 1991 to 2018. AC is the aft-cockpit deck; R is the racing cut of the rig.

The type's public record is consistent and worth stating plainly: genuinely fast, forgiving for a boat this quick, wet when pressed, and camped rather than lived in below. A racer-weekender, not a cruiser. Nothing in the lead speaks to condition, and we have not surveyed her.

On price the shelf is blunt. We hold no second R-spec F28 to benchmark against, and she stands as the second-dearest boat under 30 ft on this shelf — only one boat asks more. She files with the trailerable trimarans and, with room to spare, the trimarans under $100k.

The direct check is the shelf's other Corsair 28 — a 2002 boat at Long Beach asking $44,000, seven years older and $34,840 under this one; if the racing rig and the late build date are not your argument, that is the door:

Within the yard, $7,560 more buys the size upgrade: a 2002 Corsair F31 center-cockpit at New Bern, North Carolina — 31 ft of folding trimaran for $86,400:

And where the folding idea must also cruise, the other yard answers: a 2015 Dragonfly 28 Touring at $129,600, six years newer and $50,760 above — the one boat under 30 ft on this shelf asking more:

But if the brief is the folding tri that races, she is the one to survey first: