1993 Dragonfly 800 — Hythe, England

A 1993 Dragonfly 800 lying at Hythe, England, asking $35,271 through Multihull World. This is the boat Quorning Boats made its name on — Børge Quorning's 26-foot Danish tour trimaran, in production from 1986 well into the 2000s and one of the era's real successes among small transportable tris. From 1989 it was also the model on which the yard first fitted its Swing Wing folding system, taking the 19.9 ft beam down to berth and trailer width — the reason the design belongs with the trailerable trimarans. A 1993 build falls squarely in the Swing Wing years; treat the folding kit as a survey question, not a given.

The harder fact on this page is the sister ship. Our shelf holds one other Dragonfly 800 — a 1992 boat at Keyhaven, asking $27,949 after 323 days on the market. This boat wants $7,322 more than a one-year-older twin that is not selling, and the data we hold offers no kit or condition to explain the premium. Until a survey does, the Keyhaven boat is the benchmark:

The cross-yard market is kinder to the price. The nearest folding rival we hold, a 1990 Corsair 27 at Emsworth, asks $46,585 — three years older than this Dragonfly and $11,314 more:

And where the appetite runs to more boat, the yard's own ladder leads to the Dragonfly 920 — a 1998 example in the Vendée at $54,000: four more feet, five years newer, $18,729 over this one:

Two doors into the model, then, and this the newer and dearer of them — if the year is worth the premium, this is the one to survey first: