Stamas sailboats for sale

Buying a used Stamas: a one-off design, not a brand track record

A used Stamas sailboat is not really a bet on the Stamas brand. The company's entire history and current lineup are powerboats — fishing boats, express cruisers, center consoles — and the one sailing model here is on the books only because naval architect Robert K. Johnson later founded Island Packet Yachts and, describing his own early freelance work, named the Stamas 44 among the boats he designed beforehand. That means the usual reasons to trust an established sailboat builder — a documented production run, a known hull count, a track record of design refinement across model years — don't apply. What a buyer is evaluating is a single boat's own condition and history, not a marque's sailing pedigree.

Which era to target

There's no era to target on the 44 itself: no build year, hull count, or specification for the boat is established at the level of documentation used here. What is documented is Stamas's own construction history as a company, and even that has a gap the sources don't agree on — a 2013 Ledger/Tampa Bay Times obituary places the company's shift to fiberglass in the late 1960s, while a Soundings feature on the company's history dates it to 1959. Because the 44's own build year isn't established, neither date can be used to infer what a given hull is built from. Verifying hull material, rigging, and construction details on the boat itself, rather than assuming from the Stamas name or either era, is the only reliable approach here.

Navigating the lineup

There isn't a lineup to navigate in the usual sense. The Stamas 44 is the only sailing model this catalog carries from the company, with no sister sizes or later generations to weigh it against. Anyone evaluating it is evaluating that one boat on its own merits and documentation, not choosing a size band within a broader Stamas sailing range — the full model directory on this page reflects that directly.