2025 rapido 40r — Sant Carles de la Rapita, Spain

A 2025 Rapido 40R lying at Sant Carles de la Rapita, Spain, asking $783,000 through Grabau International. The yard exists on the premise that the folding trailer-tri was solved and the folding ocean boat was not, and the 40 is that argument in carbon: Morrelli & Melvin lines, laid up in Vietnam, twin asymmetric C-foils. The signature is the fold itself — 28.87 ft of sailing beam collapsing to roughly 16 ft alongside, which is how a platform this wide takes an ordinary berth. It is a current-year build of a model too new to have a used market.

That is the honest problem with the price: with no second Rapido 40 on our shelf to benchmark against, nothing here says whether $783,000 is keen or steep for a 2025 example — only that it is a nearly-new boat from a small yard, priced as one.

What the shelf does place is the neighbourhood. Of the trimarans we hold, only the 2022 NEEL 51 at Monastir asks more; this is the newest of the set by two years and sits above every NEEL 47 and 43 on it, and both Lagoon cats near its size. It belongs with the folding trimarans that can cross an ocean — a shelf of three.

The nearest money buys the opposite brief: a 2023 NEEL 47 at Marina del Rey, 47 ft of cruising volume, $34,000 less.

Push that instinct further: the 2022 NEEL 51 at Monastir is 51.2 ft for $949,000, $166,000 over this boat.

And if you want the folding ocean trimaran rather than a new one, the 2008 Corsair 37 in the Rhône delta stands on that same shelf at $118,800.

Nothing else we hold is a current-build carbon folding trimaran — if that is the brief, survey this one first: