Tes 550 Master Sailboats for Sale & Market Overview

Hull Type

Monohull · wing

Rig

Fractional Sloop

LOA

18.04' · 5.5 m

Disp.

2,646 lbs · 1,200 kg

First year

2001

The Tes 550 Master is a quintessential example of the Polish "microcruiser" design philosophy, conceived in the late 1990s by the prolific naval architect Tomasz Siwik and built by Tes Yacht. Launched into production in 2001, this pocket cruiser was engineered to solve a seemingly impossible puzzle: how to fit a fully functional, multiberth cruising interior with standing headroom into an eighteenfoot hull that can be easily towed behind a family car. While many pocket cruisers of this size function as little more than glorified day sailers with cramped "crawlin" cabins, the Tes 550 Master was designed from the keel up for genuine pocketcruising autonomy on inland lakes, estuaries, and protected coastal waters.