Swift 18 Owners

Reluctant sale of our beautiful Swift 18 to fund an Atlantic crossing purchase! Before you read further our boat is in France! (I could however tow it to a ferry port on an agreed price). Built 1983 by Swiftcraft for the French Micro-Cup series. The 'unsinkable' pocket sailing cruiser/racer on a tra...

Probably a silly question but has anyone got a working or storm jib they no longer need?
Or has anyone bought such things in recent times and know how much they are new?

But that's probably far too low so you must have one more hole in your mast than me so to speak.

Sorry, yes. I meant the spinnaker pole uphaul.

I see. So is that the spinnaker halyard you're using or is that lower still?

Hi Barry Great news, I'm not alone :) How have you attached the clew? Directly or with a short line? Is the sail only attached at the the clew and head? Have you added something to the mast for the new halyard? Have you (or anyone else for that matter) got a loop deck fitting to the rear of the anch...

Is anyone using an inner forestay and a working jib? Just trying to work out where an inner forestay should attach.

I guess it's not important wether the backstay or shrouds are used to apply tension for rake measurement as long as the slack is taken out of the forestay and no pre-bend is created by the tension applied.

Here's hoping for a dry weekend!

I think the attached guide along with the tuning guide in the technical section of this site should sort it....?

Thanks for replying Nick. I'm probably being a bit dim but 8" offset from where? The webbing is in an awkward position. It's only because that's where the loops are on the trailer. Actually the webbing doesn't pressure the hatch and it still slides back to the webbing easily. Maybe I should find som...

Thanks, I'll do that.
If we get chance we'll take some more pics.

Does anyone know how to measure the mast rake? On our dinghy it's specified as a length from the tip of the mast to the top of the transom. I've seen the displacement type specifications for the Swift, ie. a measurement of offset of the tip of the mast from centre or as a number of degrees off centr...

We finished the work on the inside of Long Dogs last weekend so thought we'd share the photos. They're at the end of the Gallery.

We're hoping to launch her for the first time next weekend. Any top tips would be greatly appreciated.

Has anyone got any spare pan clamps from a Lytham Mariner cooker?
Many thanks

"Tadpole" left England and "Long Dogs" arrived in France! Many thanks to Peter for looking after "tadpole" and for his help and advice, and good luck with the new Dufour 2800 "Chusanna". We may have changed the name of the Swift but at least we kept the owners name the same. We've added 2 dogs to th...