One of our readers alerted me to a new production small trimaran from France called the MIND Trimaran. It appears to be a fun, versatile sailboat.
It’s advertised as being: stable, easily maneuverable, and simple (no boom, for example). It features a daggerboard and can be set up for either 1 or 2 seats in the center hull. And the sales copy briefly refers to a “igloo tent option.” (I’d like to know more about that).
The website is in French, but I used “Google Translate” to extract the descriptive wording for this boat that is shown below. One thing I did notice is the creators of this boat may have coined a new term – “minimaran.” (Thanks to Randy C. for telling me about this tri :-)
According to Google translate…
© 2014 SAS POLYCREATIS
Given our experience of over 15 years of sports trimarans, we decided several years ago to launch a new boat. The latter should be more powerful, easier to implement our first achievements, and adapt to all types of public and navigation style.
The Minimaran XL is then born with a sports version and a version of PMR.
Finally, in 2014, we are launching the MIND 15.0 (M inimaran I nnovative N ew D esign) that around a single reference, will allow to respond to all public and all types of navigation.
MIND 15.0 is the result of many years of experience in the design and manufacture of sport multihulls for a variety of audiences.
Indeed, in the 90s was born a small trimaran named Minimaran, which allowed all audiences, distinguished sailors for people with reduced mobility, navigate with ease and security, intoxicated by sensations of glide and speed.
The images below have been linked to directly from their location on the MIND website…
Click here to visit the MIND Trimaran website for more pictures and information.
The minimaran website seems to be down now. Some interesting drawings from the MIND 15 can still be found on web.archive.org : https://web.archive.org/web/20161112051816/http://minimaran.fr/page2.html
I also found a video about the small trimaran named Minimaran from the 90’s :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzLgey-iS-c
More info can also be found on that page (bottom post from user Manfred.pech) : https://www.boatdesign.net/threads/12-and-under-trimarans-ideas-and-designs.56324/