2021 TRICAT 30 — Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes ( 06 )

A 2021 Tricat 30 at Cannes, asking $210,600 through Hellomulti. Tricat built its name in Brittany on small folding trimarans — the 6.90, the 8.50 — before drawing the 30 in 2016 as the flagship, and the yard's signature carries straight through: floats that fold afloat, taking a full seven metres of sailing beam down to 3.80, so the boat berths in the slip of an 11-metre monohull. Add 48 cm of board-up draft and the brief is plain — a genuinely habitable, coastal-fast trimaran with two cabins and standing headroom that dodges the multihull marina penalty and anchors where the fleet cannot follow.

The number this asking price must answer sits on our own shelf: the only sister we hold, a 2022 hull in Belgium, asks $180,360 — a year newer, $30,240 less. Neither listing carries condition notes and we have surveyed neither boat; on the data alone the gap is unexplained. Around the pair, the folding-trimaran market we track runs ten comparables from $78,840 to $240,000 — five Corsairs, four Dragonflys, a Farrier, built 2002 to 2021. At $210,600 this Tricat sits in the upper third of that band; every boat asking more is an older hull, and only one comparable matches its 2021 build.

If the Tricat 30 itself is the boat, the Belgian sister is the mandatory cross-check:

Where the folding idea leads through the bigger production line, the Corsair 880 is that one comparable matching this boat's build year:

And where the instinct is more boat rather than newer boat, the 2018 Farrier F-32SR in south-east England is the waterline upgrade:

None of which changes the assignment: if the folding thirty-footer is the brief, this Cannes hull — with the Belgian number in hand — is the one to survey first: