Swift 18 Owners

PS, I have subscribed to this topic so will be emailed any activity, So if you are reading this months or a year later than my original posting and know the answers- then please do tell me! I see this forum has little regular traffic- but I do believe there will be a number of people who are ...

Hi, While winding up the keel after a club race this autumn, it was just getting near to the top when it started getting a bit stiffer. I carried on and CLUNK- the keel dropped like a stone- something had snapped :(( . I was sat astride the keel box when winding and can confirm, through the seat of ...

Hi John, I live in Hamble and work in Swanwick so if you are also in Hamble we could compare thoughts. I wonder if you are the other chap that is talking to Crusader sails about improving the sailing performance of their Swift? I am now in (sporadic) communication with Colin Silvester and through ...

Wondering why I got hammered in the last club cruiser race (we sailed reasonably well) I took a look at the RYA's latest NHC baselist for handicapping. According to this the S18 is a smidge slower than the GK24 and Hawk 20. S-18- 0.832 Gk and Hawk 0.835) I had a GK 24 a couple of boats ago and raced ...

While broadly happy with my S 18, I feel somewhat distressed by the hydrodynamic shape, or lack of it, to the 'skeg'. It has a vertical leading and trailing edge and bottom, making it, in actuality, a box. 1) Are all these skegs the same shape, I know keel shapes varied? Has anybody got a better ...

Hi, What are the boom slab reefing arrangements that people have on Swifts? Mine looks like it has 2 reefs in the main, both of which have lines which terminate at sliding padeyes in the groove under the boom. Both reefs are led to sheaves in the end of the boom. I'm wondering how well this will ...

Hi, What are the boom slab reefing arrangements that people have on Swifts? Mine looks like it has 2 reefs in the main, both of which have lines which terminate at sliding padeyes in the groove under the boom. Both reefs are led to sheaves in the end of the boom. I'm wondering how well this will ...

Thanks,
I'd really like to see the drawings if possible Mike.
I think making the rudder and stock is within my capabilities- just need some idea as to size and shape.
Jake

No, I have never owned a Swift called Red Mist. My Swift is Nok and I've never had one before. I think you must have read my post first and confused them. (I have also been posting as an excited new owner!) I wonder if many Swift owners have got rid of any of the bouyancy areas for more storage ...

Re: I also seem to remember seeing the dimensions on this forum somewhere but also can't find them now!! It was a photograph of a sketch of the measurements. It was somewhere weird on the site where I didn't expect it to be. I remember thinking "I'll probably be needing that at some point"- hey ...

Thanks Guys, Sounds like port rear locker it is then. My outboard fuel tank is currently in there though so I'll have to find somewhere else for that, both in terms of space and the spark potential of connecting, disconnecting the battery! On the starboard side I have the gas bottle, so that's ...

My Swift does not have a battery. It does however have a 12 volt depth sounder so I guess it has had a battery at some point. The sounder's power lead has a long cable with a cigar lighter attachment at the end of it, but no sign of where it leads to and therefore where the battery was located ...

Help! earlier today I saw somewhere on this site a sketch of the Swift rudder blade dimensions. Just spent an hour searching for it again to no avail. I'm thinking quite seriously now of making a rudder blade out of a dinghy centreboard- perhaps off a trapeeze boat like a 505. I initially doubted ...

I have found a logbook aboard Nok called log for Esperanza/ Nok. Either Esperanza was the guy's previous boat or she was renamed from Esperanza.
Jake

I have an early Swift 18 that seems to want its jib halyard tensioning by leading the halyard round the block at the top of the foil then back down to the eye on the top of the furling drum. I understand that later ones have a top swivel that you hoist up the foil with the sail (like every other ...