Farrier F-36

 Home-built from plans

Brand:

Farrier

Designed by:

Farrier Marine

Description:

The Farrier F-36 is an ocean-going cruising multihull with demountable (not folding) floats for occasional trailering. The boat can be home-built from plans. Like all Farrier designs the trimaran is a stunning performer that is also exceptionally well behaved and can be equally well raced for a blast of adrenaline or cruised at leisure. The fractional rig is easy to handle in all conditions, with optional boom reefing and self-tacking jib. The floats are designed to resist immersion on the windward bow and to throw back spray, ensuring a safe, dry ride when at speed in windy conditions.

There is standing headroom the main cabin, though the cabin height is low, minimising the performance penalty from windage.

Building plans contain options for materials, cabin layouts and rigs, and the final displacement of the boat will vary accordingly. Hulls and floats may be foam cored fibreglass or strip planked in cedar. The aft cockpit version has a larger outside seating area with easier access to the stern, whereas the centre cockpit has a more protected helm location and the benefit of a separate aft cabin.

With the floats demounted the F-36 has a trailering width of 10 ft (3.05 m). This width requires an easily obtained permit in most countries.

The F-39 is an evolution of this design.

Type:

Cruiser-racer

Multihull type:

Trimaran

Construction:

Hull and decks: foam cored fibreglass or strip planked in cedar or Duracore (balsa core laminated between wood veneers)
Main beams: fibreglass or carbon fibre with foam core

Sails and rigging:

• Rotating mast
• Fractional sloop rig with fully battened main, optional roller boom reefing
• Optional self-tacking jib with centreboard version
• Wire luff screacher set from bowsprit; spinnaker

Sails and rigging images:

Deck layout and gear:

• Aft cockpit (seats 10) or centre cockpit (seats 6) options
• Optional pilothouse to shelter the cockpit
• Wheel steering, with optional tiller steering on the aft cockpit version

Deck layout images:

Keels, boards and rudders:

Option for centreboard or daggerboard

Accommodation:

Main cabin: galley to port; chart table and wet locker to starboard; dinette seats five and converts to double bunk; settee converts to top and bottom bunks
Forward: head compartment with separate shower; forward cabin with double berth
Aft: double cabin in centre cockpit version

Accommodation images:

LOA (length overall):

11.2 m (36 ft 9 in)

LWL (length at waterline):

10.88 m (35 ft 8 in)

Beam:

7.95 m (26 ft 1 in)

Draft minimum:

0.5 m (1 ft 8 in)

Draft maximum (e.g. boards down):

2.07 m (6 ft 9 in)

Windward sail area:

77.5 m² (834 ft²)

Sailplan details:

F-36 sailplan

Mast height above water:

14.94 m (49 ft)

Daggerboard / centreboard:

1

Displacement, lightship (empty):

2740 kg (2.7 tons)

Displacement, maximum:

4100 kg (4.04 tons)

Number of berths:

6

Inboard engines:

1

Typical total engine HP:

20

Fuel type:

Diesel

Towing width:

3.05 m (10 ft)

First introduced:

1994

In production:

Plans available

More images:

Degree of customisation:

Several options

Cost to home-build:

$130000 US (approx: £65532 Sterling / €88537 / $147804 AUS)*

Time to home-build from plans:

6000 hrs

Designer's/manufacturer's website:

• Farrier Marine website

Other useful links:

• F-36 video, courtesy Farrier Marine

Used boats for sale:

49 boats of this brand currently available!

Associations & newsgroups:

• F-Boats newsgroup
• Farrier Class Association Builders Page

* Exchange rates last updated: Sunday 27th January 2008 19:27 GMT