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The Swift Solo is the high performance three sail single-handed skiff. It was designed in 2000 by Bram Dally and the class was formed in 2003. We currently have more than 90 boats either under construction or completed in 16 countries (see list).

Design and Construction Features:

  • S-glass / carbon Kevlar construction with beautiful cedar core (instead of foam) for extraordinary durability and a long competitive life
  • Self tacking / self sheeting jib for manageability, balance and speed
  • Stand up and walk through design for easy tacking and jibing
  • Self launching spinnaker and spinnaker pole with automatic halyard cleating and uncleating for quick and easy sets and douses
  • All carbon spars including spinnaker pole for easy righting and a lower center of gravity
  • Innovative on-boom sheet cleating and single sheet control system for main and jib—a must for three sail single handed sailing.
  • Jib halyard and tack adjustments led to both wings for easy jib luff and leech control
  • All standing rigging is adjustable on-the-water
  • Sailcloth and sail design oriented around long term durability and competitive life expectancy

3 years of non-stop research and development have produced the fastest easy-to-handle single-handed skiff available.

Design emphasis was placed on safety since single-handed sailing and training is often done outside of the view of potential rescuers. The rig and sail design was developed for on-the-water adjustability to permit rapid mast bend changes for de-powering.

Best of all, you can go sailing or racing without dealing with another crew members’ schedule. You’ll find yourself on the water far more often with significantly less hassle.

Our rules have an eye toward keeping long-term costs at a minimum while allowing running rigging innovation.

We think you’ll find our people to be the friendliest and most helpful sailors anywhere. Come and join our revolutionary class by building your own. Building this skiff is far easier than it looks.

Read what those who are building have to say.

Design review by Julian Bethwaite


Swift Solo News

Help me Welcome Chris Bull to the class. Chris if from Ontario and will carry sail number CAN 088. He is our 90th member.

Have a look at some new rigging ideas on Chris Wickhams boat.

We've moved most of the news to the "news archives" page since this home page will be mostly devoted to the 2008 Swift solo North American Championships at beautiful Fort Desoto Florida.

Come down and join in the fun--even if you're just thinking about joining the class.

For those from the West, we're putting together a truck load of Swifts and Mustos to ship down and back. The price of transportation, the low cost of air fare and camping on the Island make this one of the most inexpensive paradise sailing vacations you'll ever get to attend. Just do it!

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There is nothing quite like sailing a skiff that you've built yourself.  In addition to our regular technical support, you'll get excellant advice from our member / builders who have just completed the process themselves.  Be sure to subscribe to our mailing list right away.
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All Swift builders (and potential builders) are reminded to subscribe to the mailing list.  This is currently the primary source of technical info where we can discuss ideas and post pictures of our work to help explain better ways. 

Subscribe to our mailing list (this is a "must do" for our builders) to be kept up to date: 

To subscribe, send a piece of email to "swiftsolo-subscribe@catzooks.com". It doesn't need anything special in the subject or body of the mail.

To unsubscribe, send a piece of email to "swiftsolo-unsubscribe@catzooks.com". Like subscribe, it doesn't need anything special in the subject or body of the mail.

When you do this, you will get another mail sent directly to you which you must reply to -- this is to make sure that random people can't sign up to lists they don't want to be on.  Reply to that and you're in.
  

 Be sure to check out the new transom bridle PDF 

 

      

 Thanks to Mike Jocelyn's friend Zbig, we have some great photos of the Wooden Boat Show in Port Townsend.  

The new and final (I think) centerboard construction PDF has been completed.

I've reloaded the cassette modifications PDF that has been very successful as well

Class brochure PDF for those who want to print some copies

 


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