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This unusual and innovative trimaran is not only fast, she can even fold up while still afloat.
You can count the number of successful builders of production fiberglass cruising multihulls on the fingers of one hand. In the U.S., Tony Smith of Mayo, Maryland, who builds the 30′ Gemini catamaran, is certainly a pioneer, having developed the ill-fated 26′ Telstar trimaran many years ago (the molds were destroyed in a fire). Condor Ltd. and the Outrigger Boat Co. have made some inroads into the market and have helped in the grudging conversion of American sailors to multihulls.
A number of European builders, most notably the British builder Prout and more recently Prestige and Ohlala from France, import to the U.S. a handful of boats each year.
None, however, has made a splash as big as Ian Farrier’s F-27 trailerable tri, first launched in 1985.
Farrier is a New Zealander who moved to Australia after college and began building small racing/cruising trimarans. His 19′ Tramp was Australia’s 1981 Boat of the Year. In 1984 he moved to California to begin work on the F-27 and to patent the folding mechanism that makes trailering possible.
When PS readers who own F-27s began writing to us about their boats, we took note. “Look at the F-27,” they said, “it’s something special.” A number of them sent in our Owner’s Questionnaire with raves about speed, construction and company service.
Construction
The F-27 is all fiberglass with a PVC foam core in the hull and deck. An NPG gelcoat is used, backed by AME 4000 (acrylic modified epoxy) resin. In areas of high stress, double bias fabrics, Kevlar, and carbon fiber are used. Vacuum bagging techniques are employed to ensure constant and uniform pressure on both sides of any laminate. Excess air and resin is bled off to achieve the desired, calculated weight. Light weight is essential to good multihull performance.
Unlike a monohull, which is built from basically two molds (hull and deck), the F-27 requires 52. Besides the main hull there are the two amas and four akas (cross beams), not to mention all the smaller moldings for the pop top, outboard well, hatches, and sinks. The F-27 possesses a definite “assembled” look rather than being a homogenous whole. As your eye surveys the numerous attachment points—hull/ deck joints, akas to amas, etc.—there seem to be numerous potential weak spots. The builder, however, claims there have been no failures, and we have not had reports of any. This is no doubt due to the use of quality high-tech materials and extremely careful engineering. After all, the F-27 represents nearly two decades of refinement on the original concept, not unlike the last generation of Volkswagen Beetles.
Of particular interest are the folding akas. A company brochure explains: “The beams are bolted down into molded recesses with two bolts each, the bolts being anchored into specially reinforced internal bulkheads. Once bolted the beams are strong enough on their own for all loadings. However, add the lower struts (part of the folding mechanism) and these become the primary structural members, actually relieving all bending stresses from the inner ends of the beams. Sailing is then quite possible without any bolts in beams at all! The beam bolts thus act as a backup system in the unlikely event of a folding strut failure. But should this occur the beams simply take over all loadings making the inboard structure completely safe. The actual folding struts are precision engineered from solid high strength aluminum, with nylon bush inserts being used at the pivot points with stainless steel pivot bolts.”
The akas can be folded underway while motoring, heading for the slip or launch ramp. Total beam with both amas folded in is 8′ 5″. Therein lies its appeal to Southern California sailors, who find slip space expensive if not unavailable. Also, it makes cruising Baja and the Sea of Cortez a practical adventure. Baja is the only really good cruising ground in that area, but too far to reach under sail for short term vacations.
The trailering feature will be less appealing to sailors elsewhere, except that the ability to store the boat in the backyard saves yard fees and makes maintenance a far easier chore.
The centerboard and rudders are foam-cored fiberglass with carbon fiber added for strengthening. Unlike most builders, Corsair publishes its lamination for all parts; indeed, the documentation and control evidenced at Corsair is rather extraordinary in the sailing industry.
Much of the hardware is made by Harken, including the mainsheet traveler, blocks and cleats. One reader wrote, “As the boat is well rigged, you will not need to replace any of the rigging such as winches, etc. Everything is both top quality and over-engineered.”
The boat we sailed was equipped with Lewmar #30 jib sheet winches, #24 self-tailing genoa and halyard winches; the linestoppers were made by Antal.
Performance
The F-27 is a fast boat. Obviously, speed was a priority of the design. The rig is tall and no attempt was made to provide standing headroom in the cabin, which would have added windage and weight. Already it has achieved some success racing, though it can’t be compared to monohulls and there are only a few other multihulls in its range (compare to the Newick-designed Somersault 26, Firefly 26, Dragonfly 25 and Stiletto 27). Unfortunately, we are unaware of any head-to-head competition between these boats.
We sailed Tony Cabot’s new F-27 from his mooring in Squantum, Massachusetts, under mainsail and working jib. The fully battened main can be reefed on the roller boom, though there wasn’t enough wind for us to see how the sail would set.
As we tacked out of Quincy Bay and into Boston Harbor, the wind was light (usually the case in test sails!). The boat moved effortlessly and heeled little (even in heavy weather, trimarans shouldn’t heel more than 12° to 15°). The helm was very well balanced, requiring just fingertip control (one reader said he had tuned the rig to add a little weather helm).
Approaching a fleet of racing monohulls at the harbor entrance, the 30- and 40-footers were making just a knot or so and appeared virtually dead in the water. We, on the other hand, slipped past at five knots in about as much wind, and we confess to feeling quite smug. With the board down, we also were able to point fairly high with the apparent wind between 35° and 40°, though of course multihulls are more comfortable and efficient cracked off, especially in a sea. With the F-27, this is due in part to its relatively flat, planing bottom.
In normal conditions, the F-27 can be expected to make seven to eight knots to windward. On a spinnaker reach in winds over 20 knots, speeds faster than 20 knots are possible. Cabot told me that he’d tried his darnedest to tip the boat over, but couldn’t do it (we assume he meant that the boat was not easily overpowered).
Though the F-27 is not as large a boat, with as much righting moment, as many sailors would prefer, it has made safe transoceanic passages, including California to Hawaii and New England to Europe. Through-bolting the pop top is one safety measure you’d want to take for such a passage.
F-27 owners are somewhat apologetic about the livability of the interior, mostly because there isn’t standing headroom except under the pop top, which covers the immediate galley area forward of the companionway. An optional screen/curtain encloses the sides for protection against mosquitos, gnats and other pests.
“The lack of interior space,” one reader wrote, “is a drawback compared to a monohull.”
The overall layout is clever but a bit cramped. The forward V-berth is suitable for but one medium-height person because the bow is too narrow for four feet. A head and sink are also located in this cabin, separated from the saloon by a partial bulkhead.
The main cabin has opposing settees with a convertible table hung on the daggerboard trunk. An optional insert unites the settees into one large berth. There is stowage outboard. The galley is aft with sink and flush mount stove top. The furniture foundations are fiberglass and are glassed to the hull. The access boards in the cabin sole are unvarnished teakfaced plywood. The single 12-volt battery is located in a starboard compartment between the settee and bulkhead, and there is a six-circuit electrical panel on the outside. Wiring is run through a molding behind the settees. The aft cabin sleeps two and has two windows in the transom, one vent and one lighting fixture. Kids will love it.
One difficulty monohull sailors have making the mental switch to multihulls is the comparative lightness or flimsiness of furnishings—no heavy teak cabinetry, no ash ceilings, in fact, not much wood at all unless it’s veneer. Rather, it is customary to find extensive use of fabrics on the overhead and hull liners, and that is the case in the F-27. The attractiveness of such an interior depends largely on choice of fabrics (color, pattern, texture), and Corsair has done a decent job of it. Fiberglass molding edges are covered with a vinyl molding, which looks rather cheap but does the job. Again, saving weight is paramount.
The F-27 is definitely not a liveaboard boat, but is highly functional for short cruises. One reader said,
“This has proven to be a very safe boat which both my wife and four-year-old son enjoy racing as well as cruising. The interior is small but is very livable for two weeks. We haven’t tried staying on the boat longer than that.”
The cockpit is small, as it should be for a boat touted as having offshore capabilities. It seats four with reasonable comfort. In good weather, crew can sit forward on the cabin trunk or on the netting between the main hull and amas. Moving about requires some care as the footing changes between the rigid structures and netting, and because all sail controls are led aft to the cockpit, there are winches, lines and linestoppers to trip on.
The nonskid is molded in and effective, though it looks hard to clean; we were not surprised to hear from readers confirming our suspicion.
Handling the tiller is easy, whether sitting athwartships or resting your back against the aft cabin bulkhead. Spray is deflected quite well by the tremendous flare in the topsides of the main hull. The lifeline stanchions give some security when seated, but are too low to do any good standing.
The rudder kicks up and lowers easily with dual control lines, as does the centerboard. Again, both can be managed from the cockpit.
The outboard motor sits in a well on the port quarter, and lifts by means of a block and tackle arrangement to clear the prop for sailing. Eliminating this source of drag under sail is a great bonus of small boats.
The F-27 is, in our opinion, an exceptional boat that offers decent accommodations and unparalleled performance for the standard price of $43,800 new. Options to consider are the toilet, solar panel, cabin table, sails, outboard (8-hp recommended), trailer, electronics and spinnaker.
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F-27 Sport Cruiser
F-27 Sport Cruiser is a 27 ′ 0 ″ / 8.3 m trimaran sailboat designed by Ian Farrier and built by Corsair Marine starting in 1986.
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Auxilary power, accomodations, calculations.
The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.
Classic hull speed formula:
Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWL
Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio .311 Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL
Sail Area / Displacement Ratio
A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.
SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64) 2/3
- SA : Sail area in square feet, derived by adding the mainsail area to 100% of the foretriangle area (the lateral area above the deck between the mast and the forestay).
- D : Displacement in pounds.
Ballast / Displacement Ratio
A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.
Ballast / Displacement * 100
Displacement / Length Ratio
A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat’s D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.
D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³
- D: Displacement of the boat in pounds.
- LWL: Waterline length in feet
Comfort Ratio
This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat’s hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat’s motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.
Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam 1.33 )
- D: Displacement of the boat in pounds
- LOA: Length overall in feet
- Beam: Width of boat at the widest point in feet
Capsize Screening Formula
This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.
CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)
The F-28, introduced in 1998, is similar but with a number of small updates including a rotating spar. (Renamed CORSAIR 28 in 2001.)
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This folding sailboat reached a new class of sailors and continues to attract attention today
Editor's note: This Perry on Design review is part of a special column featuring important designs from the last 50 years as part of SAILING Magazine's 50th anniversary celebration. Read more about Bob Perry's more than four decades as SAILING 's technical editor here .
My original SAILING review for the F-27 was written in 1991. In six months, 100 F-27s had been sold and they would go on to sell a total of 453 of the trimarans before production ended in 1997. I am lucky in that my buddy Doug on the next beach has an F-27 and I have sailed with him several times. I know this boat. Is it a good boat? Given how many days a week Doug sails his boat, I’d have to say this is a great boat. It’s fast and very easy to sail. Doug singlehands his F-27 almost all the time.
New Zealander Ian Farrier designed the F-27. Ian had been working on “folding” trimarans since the early 1970s, and in 1975 Ian got the patent for the Farrier Folding System. I suppose you could consider the fact that the F-27 folds down to trailerable beam the key to its success. Maybe. Being able to trailer the boat is important, but you also have to look at the performance of the F-27. In 1984 in its first official race, the Two-Man Round Catalina Race, the F-27 set a course record. In 1987 they had a repeat win in the same event. The speed on the F-27 attracted a lot of sailors looking for lots of boat speed in a small and trailerable package. From my own experiences sailing the F-27, 14 knots is commonplace and almost a yawn. The feeling of speed is so subtle on the F-27 that I find myself looking at the wake just to convince myself that yes, we are going that fast.
All of a sudden, multihulls, in large due to the meteoric success of the F-27, were “normal.” Production builders got in the game to fill the need. In time the F-27 would morph into the F-28 using much of the original F-27 tooling. The F-27 design was enjoying a second life. Other folding trimarans like the Dragonfly began showing up. Race organizers began adding multihull classes to major races.
The first folding trimaran I saw was a 40-footer designed by Bill Nightingale in about 1974. It was an awful looking thing with a mangle of aluminum tubing for struts. I can remember it sailing by me one day. A good friend of mine was standing on the weather ama with a very concerned look on his face. The ama was flapping up and down and looking like it could all come apart at any moment. The next time I took notice of the “VBT,” Variable Beam Trimaran, (we called it the “BLT”) was in a magazine and being promoted as a narrow monohull. The amas were gone. To my knowledge no boats were sold. For Ian Farrier it was different. His early work with the type in Australia paid off and there is no doubt in my mind that the term “folding trimaran” will forever be linked to the work of Ian Farrier.
LOA 27’1”; LWL 26’3”; Beam 8’5” (folded), 19’1” (amas extended); Draft 1’2” (board up) - 4’11” (board down); Displ. 2,600 lbs.; Sail area 446 sq. ft.; SA/D 37.74; D/L 64; Auxiliary 8 hp outboard; Fuel 6 gal.; Water 14 gal.; First built 1986; Originally reviewed June 1991
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CORSAIR F-27: A Fast Folding Trimaran
First introduced in 1985, this trailerable trimaran quickly became a seminal boat in the world of multihull sailing. Designed by Ian Farrier, a Kiwi who emigrated to California (by way of Australia) with the specific goal of perfecting his concept of a production-built trimaran with folding amas, the F-27 is both an excellent high-performance coastal cruiser and a competitive one-design racing machine. During a 12-year production run that ended in 1997, a total of 453 hulls were launched, making this by far the most successful boat of its type to date. Arguably, the boat is still in production, as Corsair’s successor design, the F-28, though it has a rotating wing mast and is generally more sophisticated, is quite similar and is built with much of the same tooling.
The F-27 is certainly not a boat for anyone interested in roomy accommodations. Though the body of the main hull flares out a great deal above the waterline to maximize interior space, the layout and furnishings are cramped and strictly minimal. There is only sitting headroom, except under the pop-top roof near the companionway where the simple galley is located. Berthing is limited: in the tiny aft cabin there is a narrow double berth, there are two narrow settee berths in the saloon (separated by a small removable table), plus there’s a tiny berth suitable for a small child in the forepeak.
Even a couple sailing alone on this boat will want to spend much of their time, weather permitting, hanging out in the cockpit or on the wide nets between the amas and the hull. As such, the F-27 serves best as a weekend cruiser with perhaps occasional stints aboard as long as a week or two. Though several of these boats have made ocean passages, they are not really suitable for long-range bluewater cruising unless you are something of a masochist.
Nicely finished saloon on a F-27
A less nicely finished saloon, but with the berths all filled in
The forepeak. The small single berth forward is rarely used as such, due to the close proximity of the toilet
The best way to expand living space aboard is to add a cockpit tent
What the F-27 lacks in amenities and comfort it makes up for in cruising range. Because it can be trailered, the boat can get to all sorts of places–inland lakes and distant shorelines, for example–that would otherwise be out of reach. And because it is so fast, it can cover a lot more ground than most boats once it is in the water. In a little speedster like this you can potentially travel over 100 miles during a long daysail. If you don’t really care about sailing fast and aren’t interested in taking advantage of this sort of capability, this is definitely not the boat for you. But if you want to both cruise and race, you should give the F-27 a hard look. Many people cruise these boats, and there is a very active one-design class.
Folded up and packed to travel on a trailer. You can easily expand your cruising range by simply hauling the boat to a new body of water
As originally conceived the F-27 carries no bowsprit and flies a conventional triangular (or “pinhead”) mainsail hoisted on a fixed aluminum mast. In 1996 a “formula” version of the boat was introduced with both a square-headed main that carries a lot more roach and a fixed bowsprit for flying a big screecher or asymmetric spinnaker. Many of the earlier boats have since been updated with formula rigs, as they are both faster and easier to manage.
On the whole, the boat is not hard to sail shorthanded. The self-draining cockpit is quite small with the mainsheet within immediate reach of the tiller, which extends from the transom over the top of the short aft coachroof and under the raised main traveler. Other controls, likewise, are right nearby. If anything, unless you can convince idlers to stay clear of the cockpit, the boat is harder to sail with a big crew.
There is a large central daggerboard to hold the boat to weather and unlike many multihulls the F-27 is rather closewinded and makes excellent progress to windward in light air. I once spent a delightful hour beating up a very narrow channel in an F-27 in a mere whisper of breeze and had no trouble maintaining apparent wind angles of 40 degrees. In a moderate breeze the boat points as high as 35 degrees apparent and chugs along at 8 knots no problem. With the wind on the beam, if you press hard with a spinnaker up, you can get up to 20 knots, which is a thrill and a half in a vessel this size.
If there are kids aboard and you don’t want to terrify them, just douse the headsail and the boat still sails well under main alone. Or stash them all in the aft cabin where you can keep an eye on them while steering and let it rip anyway.
A formula-rigged F-27 sailing to windward
Here’s one way to carry a tender while cruising on an F-27
The F-27’s construction is structurally impeccable and thoroughly modern. The S-glass laminate is set in epoxy resin with a PVC foam core to reduce weight and increase stiffness. Kevlar and carbon fiber are used to reinforce high-load areas, and all components are vacuum-bagged when laid up so as to minimize voids and achieve uniform resin saturation. The patented folding ama arms are well engineered, with few if any reports of failures or problems. The amas can be folded up while motoring through the water, which is a great convenience when pulling into a marina berth. When launching the boat from a trailer it takes about 30 minutes for an experienced owner to step the mast and set up the rig without assistance. Because they are so well built these boats are not cheap given their size, but if you factor in the savings realized from being able to store the boat on a trailer, they are in fact quite affordable over the long run.
Systems are primitive and therefore are easy and inexpensive to maintain. Auxiliary power consists of an 8 or 9 hp outboard engine hanging in an offset engine well at the stern. The stove is usually a simple two-burner non-pressurized alcohol rig; the ice box (never mind any kind of refrigeration) is a loose cooler dragged aboard and stowed in a convenient nook or cranny. The boat has a 12-volt electrical system powering a few lights and instruments and probably requires some extracurricular charging from a solar panel or two if used very much. The toilet is often nothing more than a porta-potty stashed under the forward berth. To those who value comfort and convenience all this no doubt sounds unpleasant, but to those who enjoy sailing fast and cherish simplicity it should seem like heaven afloat.
Specifications
LOA: 27’1″ LWL: 26’3″ Beam -Amas extended: 19’1″ -Amas folded: 8’5″ Draft -Board up: 1’2″ -Board down: 4’11” Displacement -Light ship: 2,600 lbs. -With maximum payload: 3,800 lbs. Sail area -Original rig: 446 sq.ft. -Formula rig: 502 sq.ft. Fuel: 6 gal. Water: 14 gal. D/L ratio -Light ship: 64 -With maximum payload: 94 SA/D ratio -Original rig/Light ship: 37.69 -Original rig/Max load: 29.26 -Formula rig/Light ship: 42.42 -Formula rig/Max load: 32.93 Nominal hull speed -Light ship: 11.6 knots -With maximum payload: 10.3 knots Typical asking prices: $35K – $50K
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Should I Buy an F27 Trimaran?
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I am going to buy a sailboat next summer for cruising quick overnights/weekends & daysailing in Long Island Sound. I am currently enthralled with getting a Corsair F27 trimaran. http://www.multihull-maven.com/Boats/Corsair_F-27 The ability to get across the sound in a half day is particularly appealing (as well as the fun of going fast- I am a former Hobie 16 sailor). I can see no downside to a tri besides the potential to capsize vs a keelboat, which I feel comfortable I can avoid. I'm fine with a shorter/smaller cabin. Any downsides I might be missing?
The surface state of the sound will determine how much of that speed capability you can actually use. That is a very powerfully canvased boat, and a wet ride, especially in big chop. They are huge fun to sail, and Ian Farrier's folding ama design is genius. It is a great trailer sailor, but pretty spartan by my standards.
Love Them A friend down here in florida has one that he seems to still use for weekend over nighters and not a younger guy and retired and 60 which enjoys very much and hope to go sailing on it soon. i also had hobie 16 up when in NY and saw many times those trimaran's going from Ct. to Block Island. I am sure you can add things for over over nighters and weekends,we are retired here our 60 ish and enjoy our comforts when cruising here 2 or 3 weeks at a time. Nick
Gunni said: The surface state of the sound will determine how much of that speed capability you can actually use. That is a very powerfully canvased boat, and a wet ride, especially in big chop. They are huge fun to sail, and Ian Farrier's folding ama design is genius. It is a great trailer sailor, but pretty spartan by my standards. Click to expand
Stan Breaux
Would you keep it in the water? My main worry would be how hard/ how long it would take to rig one of these if you are going to trailer sail it. I used to have a Mac 26, and it almost always took me an hour to get it fully ready to go. A lot of people say it should be a lot faster than 1 hour, but that's about what it always took to go from ready for the highway to ready for the water. These trimarans look a decent bit more complicated. They also look like a lot of fun.
It all depends on what you're looking for... I rented an F27 once to go from LA to Catalina. Fast and furious, I was with a teen-aged daughter; we loved the boat and the trip. You can overnight in spartan comfort: the boat will remain fast and fun and wet, no matter what. You won't be buying comfort no matter what you do to make it more sedate! Reefing for comfort would be a sin on this boat. I owned a Tornado for about fifteen years, when I gave it away I (we) wanted comfort; if you are younger and do not want to go the long-term cruising route this might be the perfect boat. Good luck & have fun. Pierre
Stan Breaux said: My main worry would be how hard/ how long it would take to rig one of these if you are going to trailer sail it. I used to have a Mac 26, and it almost always took me an hour to get it fully ready to go. A lot of people say it should be a lot faster than 1 hour, but that's about what it always took to go from ready for the highway to ready for the water. These trimarans look a decent bit more complicated. They also look like a lot of fun. Click to expand
I met a very nice fellow last summer that crossed the atlantic in his f31 with his wife, he took me out for a ride with the boat and the speed impressed me , very fast boat
It is a very light boat and doesn't need much sail once the wind builds. The boat accelerates much more quickly than a mono, or even your average cruise cat so you need to be keenly aware of sails and trim.
That boat is one heck of a performer. Multi hulls are not supposed to go well up wind but with a friend sailing close hauled in the Oakland Estuary we were dusting mono hulls that were motoring. The accommodations are also surprisingly good for what it is. The ability to trailer and it's skinny water capability are a massive attraction. Just be warned though, some time back on the bay one was capsized when the downwind amah was hit by a large wake and submarined, it is nowhere near as forgiving as a big ole monohull and proper caution is needed. For what it is good for it is a great boat.
This sounds like the boat for you. The beauty of having a cabin is that guests (or the Admiral) can seek shelter if they don't want to get wet. Heeling on a mono is usually what upsets most newbies to sailing, so at least that isn't as much of an issue on the tri. It's probably the speed that will concern most guests. My friend's wife was scared ****less on our buddy"s F-24, but my wife loved it. But then, my wife likes to drive motorcycles, fast. Just be picky about who goes with you, but get out there and have fun.
David in Sandusky
A great go fast cruiser The only caution is that you have to load it light to keep it fast. It's surprising how much you will want to load for just an overnight! On the other hand, this is a great cruiser for inland archipelagos. The Thousand Islands are not far away. Short fetches between the islands keep the waves down. And there are hundreds of places to anchor - all kinds of destinations. I met a couple cruising the North Channel of Lake Huron for a couple of weeks in one.
Telemark Sailor said: Any downsides I might be missing? Click to expand
Joe said: Yes, don't wait till summer.... get it asap so you can have it ready for summer... Those Corsairs are very cool sailboats... you'll be the envy of every sailor on the sound when you whiz past them with the windward ama skimming over the wavelets. Click to expand
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The F-27 Sport Cruiser is an American trailerable trimaran sailboat that was designed by New Zealander Ian Farrier in 1984-1985. ... Corsair 27 This model was designed by Ian Farrier and built between 1986 and 1997, until replaced in production by the F-28. It has a non-rotating mast, a length overall of 27.00 ft (8.2 m), a waterline length ...
Trimaran Dbrd. Rigging Type: Fractional Sloop: LOA: 27.08 ft / 8.25 m: LWL: 26.25 ft / 8.00 m: ... Ian Farrier: Builders: Corsair Marine: Download Boat Record: Notes. Folded beam: 8.42ft / 2.57m The F-28, introduced in 1998, is similar but with a number of small updates including a rotating spar.
Farrier is a New Zealander who moved to Australia after college and began building small racing/cruising trimarans. His 19′ Tramp was Australia's 1981 Boat of the Year. In 1984 he moved to California to begin work on the F-27 and to patent the folding mechanism that makes trailering possible.
F-27 Sport Cruiser is a 27′ 0″ / 8.3 m trimaran sailboat designed by Ian Farrier and built by Corsair Marine starting in 1986. Great choice! Your favorites are temporarily saved for this session. Sign in to save them permanently, access them on any device, and receive relevant alerts. ... F-27 Sport Cruiser is a 27 ...
Designed by Ian Farrier, with the specific goal of perfecting the concept of a production-built family/cruiser racer trimaran with folding amas, the F-27 is both an excellent high-performance coastal cruiser and a competitive one-design racing machine. During a 12-year production run that ended in 1997, a total of 453 hulls were launched.
History of Farrier Trimarans (1970-2017) ... The F-27 trimaran took line honors by 4 hours, and won on handicap, from a fleet of mostly bigger boats, including a maxi (65′) ULDB monohull. Starting last, the F-27 overhauled the entire monohull fleet on the first 30 mile windward leg in very choppy 20 to 25 knot conditions.
Doug singlehands his F-27 almost all the time. New Zealander Ian Farrier designed the F-27. Ian had been working on "folding" trimarans since the early 1970s, and in 1975 Ian got the patent for the Farrier Folding System. I suppose you could consider the fact that the F-27 folds down to trailerable beam the key to its success. Maybe.
F-27 having mast raised. Launching is always done folded, using no more space than a conventional boat. ... One key to the success of Farrier trimarans is the easy trailerability made possible by the unique Farrier Folding System™. The Farrier system is the most structurally sound trimaran folding system available, ...
The designer of the F-27 is New Zealander Ian Farrier who settled in Queensland, Australia, and started with a folding 18-footer. Farrier now live s in Southern California and runs Corsair Marine. When you bring up the subject of performance and trimarans you will invariably hear "They don't go to weather and they capsize."
First introduced in 1985, this trailerable trimaran quickly became a seminal boat in the world of multihull sailing. Designed by Ian Farrier, a Kiwi who emigrated to California (by way of Australia) with the specific goal of perfecting his concept of a production-built trimaran with folding amas, the F-27 is both an excellent high-performance coastal cruiser and a competitive one-design racing ...
THE F-27 MANUAL by Ian Farrier This manual contains important information about the safe operation and maintenance of your new F-27. ... and follow its recom-mendations, to help make your sailing trouble-free and enjoyable. Your F-27 is designed and built as a high performance cruising yacht, which when used as intended, with its enormous ...
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The vehicle of the water, and the F-27 is an easy push-off from here. steady, on the way up, limiting any sideways of the boom to take the weight. Remove the sail movement. Mast raising is thus a one man bag from the mainsail/boom and insert the shaft at operation. the front of the boom through the mast pivot hole. 9.
History of Farrier Trimarans till F-27 (1970-1991) ... The F-27 trimaran took line honors by 4 hours, and won on handicap, from a fleet of mostly bigger boats, including a maxi (65') ULDB monohull. Starting last, the F-27 overhauled the entire monohull fleet on the first 30 mile windward leg in very choppy 20 to 25 knot conditions.
The Corsair F27 is a 27'1" (8.25m) fast cruising trimaran designed by Farrier Marine (New Zealand). She was built between 1985 and 1997 by Corsair Marine (Vietnam). Corsair F27's main features
If you are not familiar with the advantages of the Ian Farrier's folding designed trailer trimaran, please discuss with us. ... 1991 Corsair F-27 Trimaran. sold out. 1991 Corsair F-27 Trimaran. $0.00 Call for price Year: 1991 Hull #244 Brand/Builder: Corsair Marine Motor: 2016 Electric Torqeedo Location: Colorado
Farrier, who passed away in 2017, created the F-22 as a kind of culmination of all he'd continued to learn about small, trailerable multihulls in the years since he penned the F-27 trimaran, a true trail-blazer and now part of the "Sailboat Hall of Fame.". Another F-22 sidles up alongside a pier in Malta with amas folded in.
I am currently enthralled with getting a Corsair F27 trimaran. ... especially in big chop. They are huge fun to sail, and Ian Farrier's folding ama design is genius. It is a great trailer sailor, but pretty spartan by my standards. ... Hunter 27_75-84 Sandusky Harbor Marina, Ohio Feb 17, 2014 #12 A great go fast cruiser The only caution is that ...
2022 Neel 43. US$525,000. Performance Yacht Sales | Stuart, Florida. <. 1. >. * Price displayed is based on today's currency conversion rate of the listed sales price. Boats Group does not guarantee the accuracy of conversion rates and rates may differ than those provided by financial institutions at the time of transaction. Find Farrier ...
Models currently listed on YachtWorld span in size and length from 27 feet to 31 feet. Type of yachts by Farrier. This boat builder presents a variety of hull types: . These hull variations are commonly employed for cherished and time-honored activities like a variety of commercial and recreational boating activities. Farrier equips models ...
Farrier preowned sailboats for sale by owner. Farrier used sailboats for sale by owner. Home. ... Farrier F-27: Length: 27' Beam: 19' Draft: 3' Year: 1990: Type: racer/cruiser: Hull: fiberglass trimaran: ... 28' Custom Trimaran Seaclipper 28 Baja California Mexico Asking $29,500. 31' Cumulant 3 Indiantown, Florida
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Some Farrier trimarans are kept folded in marinas but fouling of the float topsides is an issue and the lateral stability of a fully folded Farrier in a big gale is a bit questionable. On the other hand, Dragonfly trimarans are often kept folded in marinas being more stable when folded. ... Sep 27, 2012. Farrier TT720. buzzman, Jun 19, 2012, in ...