Standfast 50 Sailboats for Sale

Hull Type

Monohull · fin

Rig

Masthead Sloop

LOA

48.39' · 14.75 m

Disp.

42,990 lbs · 19,500 kg

First year

1980

The Standfast 50 stands as a definitive example of the "performance cruiser" ethos that emerged from the Breskens yard of Frans Maas during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Designed for the unforgiving conditions of the North Sea, the 50foot hull was engineered to offer the speed of a racing yacht with the structural security of a dedicated ocean passagemaker. Unlike the massproduced fiberglass yachts of its era, each Standfast 50 was built with a high degree of semicustom flexibility, resulting in a fleet where no two vessels are identical in their internal layout or rigging specifics. The model’s lineage is closely tied to the Standfast 47, an earlier design that proved Maas’s ability to balance a high ballast ratio with a relatively sleek beam.