Treasy 4.0

We met up on the beach (the little machine we’re interested in today has no business in the nearby boat show port of Les Minimes) at the heart of the newly renamed “Grand Pavois Beach”. Here, everything that glides across the water rubs shoulders with the world of dinghy sailing.

The Treasy 4.0 promises to be easy to spot among the paddleboards, kitesurfers and other catamarans: trimarans like this one, weighing less than 100 kg (220 lbs), are not a dime a dozen! We should say “no longer”, because 20 years ago, the Magnum 21 sold 400 units. Since then, other manufacturers have tried their hand at the mini-trimaran, such as Astus Boats with its 14.5, which can be converted into a prao, but without recapturing the great success of the 2000s. In our opinion, the formula has been incorrectly ignored and deserves to be relaunched. So welcome to Treasy 4.0! This new model was designed and built by Emilien Faurens at his Faursail shipyard, based in La Tremblade. Usually, the architect/builder’s products are (small) one-off boats, but the multihull we’re interested in, made in GRP, is offered in series produ...