RCUK - Other features

Other features

Safety

Winning races is fine, but we want all of our rowers to not only be safe, but to be reassured about their safety. Our boats among the safest boats available. Every boat we build has enclosed bow and stern compartments. We also enclose the area under the seat deck for added buoyancy. This makes the fitting of electronics a little troublesome, but we feel this is insignificant compared to your safety. We are also happy to put polystyrene blocks in any of the

enclosed areas at the production stage. This will help to keep the boat afloat even if it has been holed, but will add slightly to the boat weight and cost. If you would like to take advantage of this, then be sure to specify at the time of order. Please understand that it may be impossible to remove these polystyrene blocks at a later date without major work.

Boat colours

The standard colour for Swift boats is white hull and canvas decks, with black tips for the bow and stern, and black trim on the saxboard tops and wave breaker. Deck tape is black. We use 3 coats of a UV resistant polyurethane paint to help protect your boat.

For custom colours we offer 3 choices
(see "prices" page for details);

A. Standard design but change the trim and bow/stern tip colour from black to another colour.
B. Standard design but change the main colour from white, change the trim colour or leave it as black.
C. Other custom colour.

Photo(above): a happy Adam Page (UK) taking delivery of his Elite 1x with carbon wing riggers. (This is menu B.)

Section Boats

All eights are section boats (2 pieces), in line with FISA's rules of racing. All other boats, singles, doubles and fours can be built as 1 piece boats, or for easy transportation and storage as 2 piece boats. Please see the prices page for details. There will be an increase in boat weight of approximately 1kg for singles and doubles, and 2kg for fours and eights.

Crew weights guide

kg	45	50	55	60	65	70	75	80	85	90	95	100	105	110
St/lb	7/1	7/12	8/9	9/6	10/3	11	11/11	12/8	13/5	14/2	14/13	15/10	16/7	17/4
lbs	99	110	121	132	143	154	165	176	187	198	209	220	231	242

When ordering boats, please specify the average crew weight required in kilogrammes.
1st = 6.35kg, 1lb =0.454kg, with 14lbs to a stone.

Boat weight

Elite are built to FISA minimum -2% to +5%.
Club A are approximately 5% to 25% over FISA minimum.
Club B are approximately 5% to 30% over FISA minimum.

Reasons for the wide range of "over-weightedness" within any one grade of boat;
   - Sweep rigged boats tend to be less over FISA minimum weight than scull rigged boats.
   - Bigger boat classes (8s and 4s) tend to be less over FISA minimum weight than smaller boat classes (1x and 2x/-).
   - Boats for lightweights tend to be lighter than boats for heavy crews.

Coxed Boats

All eights are stern coxed boats, in line with FISA's rules of racing. Fours can be built as either top coxed/front loaders, or as stern coxed boats.

Delivery

Please ask about delivery arrangements at time of order.