Used Trimarans under $100k for sale

Under one hundred thousand dollars is where the trimaran stops being an exotic and becomes a decision. The shelf is small — three hundred thirty boats worldwide, median $38,900 at twenty-seven feet — but it is the densest value in multihull sailing: boats that sail at wind speed, fold to a trailer or a normal berth, and cost less than the average used bowrider.

The market has four corners. Corsair is the volume: F-24s in the twenties, Sprint 750s and 28s in the forties, and the F-31 — the boat that proved a family trimaran could cross oceans — in the eighties. Dragonfly is the Danish build-quality answer, from the little 800 under thirty thousand to the 920 in the fifties. And then the singletons that make this shelf worth watching: a Contour 34 SC at the price of a production 28, or a new-generation Astus sport tri with amas that slide home for the road.

The trimaran survey is its own discipline: the folding hardware and its pins, the beam-to-hull joints, and the float bows that hit waves first. Age matters less than on monohulls — these hulls are light because they are engineered, not thin — but rig age matters more: a tri loads its rigging harder than its displacement suggests.

The boats built to fold for the highway live on the trailerable trimarans shelf; the ones with an ocean pedigree, whatever their size, are the bluewater trimarans. This page is the price answer: everything three hulls can do, under six figures.