The New F-22 Sport Tri
A Low Cost Trailerable Trimaran

Folding and Trailerability

The F-22™ uses the well proven Farrier Folding System™, easily the most popular folding system world wide, and now further improved with the new 'third generation' beams and folding system. Besides making building easier, the new configuration also eliminates the 'nuisance' beam recesses in the main hull deck of earlier designs, giving a much cleaner look. The Farrier Folding System has now proved itself beyond doubt, and there has never been a single failure of any lower folding strut. Thus it was possible to begin eliminating beam bolts and shorten the beams (see later designs such as the F-9A/F-31 and F-25). The F-22™ goes even further, with beam length set at the optimum, no interior intrusion at all! The resulting short beams, braced by the lower folding struts, are the most efficient beams available for a trailerable trimaran.

The F-22™ beams and folding struts have also been lifted higher than earlier designs, with lower folding struts now being anchored inside the beams. This will help eliminate any spray that can come from folding struts, on occasion, at high speeds. The beams are curved more and shaped to capture and deflect any spray under the boat.

For ease of use, everything is designed so that rigging and launching can be done single-handed. The target setup time from arriving at ramp and having boat rigged, and in the water, is less than 10 minutes.

Start :: the interior :: the folding system :: building :: performance :: the plans

Ian Farrier
Farrier Marine, Inc.
January 2008