1999 Contour 34 SC — Hudson, Florida

A 1999 Contour 34 SC at Hudson, Florida, asking $65,000 through Knot 10 Yacht Sales. Cole Beadon drew the Contour trimarans in the early nineties for the Canadian yard Contour Yachts, whose signature swing-wing geometry keeps the amas upright as the boat narrows to twelve and a half feet for a slip, eight and a half on its trailer. The 34 SC was the cruising stretch of that idea — a trailerable 34-footer with a genuine interior that still displaces about 4,850 pounds, its cockpit-controlled centerboard taking the draft from 1 foot 3 inches to 5 foot 3.

This is the only Contour on our shelf — no sister ship, so whether $65,000 is keen for a 1999 hull is not something this data can say. What it can say is that the ask sits in a gap: every folding tri here under $55,000 is under 31 feet, and everything above $78,000 is newer, bigger, or both. The Contour is asking mid-gap money for length and accommodation nothing below it offers, as a one-yard boat with no class fleet behind it.

The closest concept at less money is the 1998 Dragonfly 920 at Noirmoutier, France — a cruising-minded folder of the same era, four feet shorter, asking $54,000:

Where the pull is toward a deep fleet instead, the 2002 Corsair F31 Center cockpit at New Bern, North Carolina answers with a cruising layout and the parts-and-resale weight of the F-31 class — a dozen quality examples on this shelf — at $86,400:

And where age outweighs length, the 2009 Corsair F28 R is a decade younger than the Contour at $78,840, one size down at 28 feet:

None of them, though, folds a genuine 34-foot interior down to road width — this is the one to survey first: