Swift 18 Owners

Swift 18: 4 berth GRP lift keel cruiser for sale - *** Sold Sold Sold *** Very sad to have to sell Giulia, our Swift 18 - owned since 2006 - due to the time-demands of a new family! Giulia (its Italian for 'Julia' and pronounced the same way) is white with blue trim, in good condition and has been h...

Hi Phillip/Compo, Yep you seem to be using the site fine. Its been a year since my original post.. Helped by Deeward, Giulia spent the Summer up at Morston. Its fantastic up there, really beautiful, but the restrictions placed by the tides meant that I didn't do as much sailing as I'd hoped - I'm go...

I've owned Giulia for 2+ years now in which time she has not been out of the water. She lives on the Broads so its fresh-water and fairly well-protected and keeping her in has been great in that it's enabled me to use her all year round. However, I'm planning on taking her to the coast and a drying ...

Thanks for the reassurance that its not just my poor sailing ability Terry! plus the recommendation for the Icom M31. I've not got PBO Jan 08 Martin but your comment prompted me to trawl through all my old boating magazines - found a review in 2006 which rated the the M31 joint top (with the Raymari...

Hi All, Thinking about getting a portable VHF radio as a safety backup - and for general watersports and kayaking use. Anyone got any recommendations as to the best model & features? I'm thinking small, light and waterproof would enable it to be kept on you most of the time. It would be ideal for ai...

Hmm... whilst I'd agree that the rivers on the Broads are probably ok, I'd share Mike's concern about sailing on Hickling - the marked channel is fairly narrow if you're looking to spend a few hours sailing around on the Broad itself (as opposed to just passing through it) and parts of it seemed a b...

Hi Pauline, Hope you are doing well since our last email correspondance! Evening on South Walsham sounds nice with the swallows but I thought that the broad looked a wee bit small - I'd be constantly worrying about hitting the keel. Coincidently I did do that for the first time on Friday on Barton b...

Hi, I've had my Swift, Giulia, based on Barton Broad for the past year and can thoroughly recommend it - under 5 mins motoring from boatyard to sails up; safe yet big and deep enough to hold your interest for a nice few hours sail - with an island to sail round as well! - and, as it's not tidal (muc...