1985 Swift 18 Trailer Sailer
General Specification
Construction
- GRP construction
- Original Gelcoat in good condition
- Self draining cockpit
- Lifting transom rudder
- Centreboard lifting keel
Mechanical & Electrical
- 2024 Mariner 5hp 4-Stroke petrol outboard engine (approx. 20 hours)
- Last serviced 2025
- 2L fuel tank
- Outboard mounted in cockpit well
- Leisure battery for cabin light and instruments
- Tiller steering
Rigging & Sails
- Fractional Bermudan Sloop rig
- Alloy mast/spars
- Mast stepped in tabernacle for easy lowering/raising
- Standing rigging and running rigging all in good condition
- 2 x winches (mounted on coach roof)
- Headsail roller reefing gear
- Mainsail and jib in good condition
- New sail cover fitted (2023)
- Sail area (as designed) : 18.49 m2 / 199 ft2
Accommodation
- 4 berths in 1 cabin
- V-berth with infill boards to become double
- 2 x quarter berths
- Single burner hob
- Sink with hand pumped cold water supply
- 20l freshwater tank
- Sitting headroom only
Equipment
- Single axle road trailer in good condition
- Duet depth and log
- Stainless steel pulpit and push pit
- Stanchions and guard wires
- Transom mounted boarding ladder
- Anchor & chain
- Various fenders
- Various warps
Remarks:
An ideal first boat, or small family sailing cruiser with the cabin offering accommodation for four, the Swift 18 is sure to provide lots of fun out on the water! Understood to have been in current ownership for some 3 years she is now for sale owing to the purchase of a larger boat.
The Swift 18 was designed as a fast, yet comfortable, trailer sailor, with enough built in buoyancy to be virtually unsinkable if swamped, even with 3 crew aboard. When reviewed in April 1982, Practical Boat Owner magazine said of the Swift 18, “in a nasty Force 6/7 and with 2 reefs in the main she stayed light on the helm, was well balanced and galloped along like a racehorse”.
Her owner comments:
I have sailed her extensively, solo, across Lyme Bay and the south coast in a very wide range of conditions. She has been the first vessel to leave our harbour and the last to return for the last couple of seasons. Last year I sailed her into Lyme Regis harbour alongside a fully crewed 40′ French racing yacht in a force 6 and the crew came over, after they moored up, to say how impressed they were with my little boat. She will happily face bigger seas than I can manage.
She is very strong and rigid and extremely safe with her built in buoyancy.
She is in great condition and ready to sail.
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