The WETA Trimaran is a easy to trailer, easy to rig. You can launch at a boat ramp or the beach. The WETA sits on a dolly which goes on the trailer. You never have to get your trailer wet. You just push the dolly (with the boat on it) off the trailer. Rig the boat. When ready to sail, push or pull dolly (with boat on it) down the boat ramp or down the beach into the water. Once you are in knee deep water pull dolly out from under the boat. Return dolly to the shore and go sailing. The WETA can safely handle 500 pounds of crew weight, but as with most multihulls, the lighter the total crew weight, the faster you go. Here are some specs:
Weta Trimaran
OverviewKey FeaturesSpecifications
“Life’s better with a Weta” they say! The Weta is a fun, fast and easy Trimaran that appeals to sailors of all ages and abilities.
10 reasons to love sailing your Weta!
Incredible stability
High performance – speed up to 20 knots
Simple rig – no boom
Versatility – sail solo or together
Lightweight yet robust
Compact storage
No abs of steel required
Rig and launch by yourself in 20 minutes
Proven New Zealand design
Capsize resistant and easy to recover
Fun
The Weta is a very social boat. So while we are serious about design, craftsmanship, and the materials we use, the objective is fun. Even if you’re racing your Weta in serious competitions, we want to make sure you’re enjoying yourself. And if you want to introduce kids – or anyone – to the joys of sailing, a Weta is the perfect boat. Deliberately crafted for stability and versatility, the Weta is easy to sail with the family. The kids feel safe, and they learn the most important thing about sailing: that it’s tons of fun!
Fast
One of the greatest feelings when you’re out on the water in a Weta is exhilaration. Everyone loves to go fast! An excellent sea boat, a Weta is built for speed. And it’s built from lightweight, high tech materials, meaning a Weta is sturdy, stable, but light, ensuring even in gentle winds this beautifully balanced and responsive boat can get some sensational speeds up. With a bit of a breeze on you can reach speeds of 20 knots. Now that’s some serious fun.
Easy
One of the driving aims when designing the Weta was to build it from materials that were robust, but lightweight, so that a Weta could be assembled, sailed and rigged easily by one person. The simple but clever custom beach trolley and 6kg, two-piece mast make moving, launching, rigging and storing a Weta a breeze!
The fun bit – getting out and fast on the water – is easy, too, with the boat designed for ease of handling whether you’re a seasoned skipper or an enthusiastic novice. The three-sail design, boomless rig and minimum control lines mean you can make the most of the wind single-handedly, and even with the family on board, you can tack like a monohull but speed like a multihull, with absolute ease.
And when you’ve had all the fun you can take, everything packs down quickly and easily and stores on a surprisingly small footprint.
SPECIFICATIONS
Length | 14’5″ / 4.4m |
Beam | 11’6″ / 3.5m |
Beam Folded Away | 5’7″ / 1.7m |
Hull Material | Fibreglass / Foam |
Weight – Main | Hull128lb / 58kg |
Weight – Float with Beam Frame | 40lb / 17.5kg |
Sail – Main | 89sq ft / 8.3sq m |
Sail – Jib | 34sq ft / 3.2sq m |
Sail – Screecher | 86sq ft / 8.0sq m |
Beam Frame | Carbon |
Mast | Carbon two Piece |
Rudder Stock | Carbon |
Rudder | FoilCarbon |
Centreboard | Carbon |
Hardware | Ronstan |
Sails | North Sails |
Beam Frame | Carbon |
Design | Weta Design Team & TC Design |
The photo above is Rick of Rick's Small Sailboats LLC, competing in the Dick Hitchcock Memorial Regatta, March 2024 on his WETA Sail #1422. This event was put on by the Gulfport Yacht Club near St. Petersburg, Florida. There is a active WETA one design fleet that has numerous Sailing Regattas (Races) throughout Florida and around the world. The WETA was designed the developed by a father and son team in New Zealand. Sailing just for fun & Sailboat racing is a sport you can participate in your whole life.
There are some great videos of the WETA Trimaran sailing in all kinds of conditions that can be found on You Tube. Contact Rick for more information, or a WETA Demo Ride.
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