Rapido 53XS

Accommodation

Trois cabins / two heads.
Interior furniture made entirely of ultra-light prepreg carbon sandwich.
Forward cabin: Double berth, private head. Headroom 1.91 m (6.27’).
Central port cabin: Double berth, shared head.
Central aft cabin: Double berth, shared head.
Shared shower room for the central and aft cabins.
Saloon with high berth and convertible dinette.
Headroom of 2.00 m in the saloon and cockpit.
Chart table. Pressurized hot and cold water.
Water tank 300L
Autoterm heating with 2 units

Galley

Vitrifrigo 100 L keel-cooled freezer drawer
Extra Vitrifrigo 180 L fridge
Eno stove 2 burners + Eno oven,
Micro wave oven,
Water tanks 300 L total
Dessalator water maker 100 L/h manual

Sails and rigging

Spreader less rotating wing mast, carbon (in-house built), 23.09 m (75.8’) oversized vs base model
Park Avenue carbon boom fitted out
Aramid standing rigging, one size up from standard
North Sails 3Di Ocean Series package – sail area approx. 5% above standard:
Full batten mainsail 117 m² (1,259 sq ft) 3 reefs
Jib / Solent 73 m² (786 sq ft)
Staysail 25 m² (268 sq ft)
Reacher 150 m² (1,615 sq ft)
A2 Asymmetrical Spinnaker: 230 m².
A5 Asymmetrical Spinnaker: 175 m2 (Veleria Sail Design)
Wind seeker: 46 m2 (Veleria Sail Design)
Parasailor: 330 m2
All maneuvers are sent back to the cockpit with regatta solution with part of the maneuvers on the mast.
Six Antal winches, four electric and two manual one on forward deck,
Dyneema reinforced running rigging.

Electronics

B&G Zeus 3 12” at the helm station chart plotter with C-Map Insight charts
Extra 12” chart plotter at nav station
B&G H5000 Hydra CPU, Graphic Display and N2K Backbone
Precision-9 compass – heading, roll and pitch over NMEA 2000 (20/10 Hz)
213 masthead wind unit
H5000 Pilot controller and Pilot computer
Jeffa autopilot cylinder with RF300 rudder return;
Honeywell SP100 mast rotation sensor.
Jeffa autopilot drive. RF300 rudder feedback. Honeywell SP100 mast rotation sensor
B&G HALO20+ radar – 36 NM, 60 RPM, dual range, velocity track mounted on the mast.
Forward Scan transducer. DST800 depth/speed/temp transducer (currently not installed)
B&G V60-B VHF/DSC with integrated AIS transmitter and wireless handset H60
NSPL-500 AIS/VHF splitter
Large LCD TV with mast-mounted antenna
Fusion True Marine receiver with 4 x 200 W speakers
Starlink with antenna on the roof,
UpSideUP anti-capsize system,
CZONE for home automation management

Electrical

24 V network
Services batteries lithium-ion 3X230A /24v (690A total)
One engine battery 150A 12v
Chargemaster Plus Mastervolt 24 V / 110A
Inverter Charger Combi master 3000 Mastervolt
Flexible Solbian solar panels mounted on the roof (9 x 1088 W panels in total).
MAXPOWER luffing bow thruster.
Mastervolt inverter 24 V / 5 500 W
2 x 400 W solar panels on carbon mounts (800 W total)
Bow thruster (tunnel type)
Automatic fire extinguisher for engine room and battery area

Deck

Maxwell Electric Windlass
Main anchor Spade 25kg with 100m of 10mm chain (30 + 30 + 40m),
Spade 18kg Secondary anchor with 10mm chain (part of the main anchorage)
Two curved daggerboards made of prepreg carbon baked in an autoclave, one in each float (without central daggerboard).
Two fixed rudders with horizontal fin on the lower part made of prepreg carbon and installed on the floats.
1 Emergency rudder with movable well and tiller to be mounted on the transom,
Full aft cockpit closure
Large trampolines
TRUE KIT Navigator 300 dinghy with inflatable bottom
Suzuki 6 HP outboard engine.
Six-person life raft with stand.
Safety equipment for offshore navigation.
Fenders and mooring lines.

Additional

Hull #1 – first and only Rapido 53XS built to date
4 watertight bulkheads per float, 5 in main hull.
Air draft: 26.56 m (87’)
Antifouling Coppercoat base currently coated by an International Hard Matrix Antifouling,
Currently berthed at Port du Marin, Martinique