SWIFT 18
Fractional Sloop • Keel/Cbrd. • Built 1981
Dimensions
- LOA
- 18 ft
- LWL
- 16.33 ft
- Beam
- 7.92 ft
- Max Draft
- 3.5 ft
- Min Draft
- 0.75 ft
- Displacement
- 1,450 lbs
- Ballast
- — lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 2.80 (use caution offshore)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 24.9
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 149
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- —
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 199 sq ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Keel/Cbrd.
- Rig Type
- Fractional Sloop
- Hull Material
- FG
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1981
- Last Built
- —
- Number Built
- —
Notes: The SWIFT 18 was originally designed for aluminum contruction. This proved to be impractical so molds were made, and all boats after the prototype were built of fiberglass. There have been a number of different builders and a number of variations in rig and other details.
Builder
- Honnor Marine Ltd. (1955)