A little help working out the year and name of my old swiftcraft

[big-bad_al]

G'day people,
As a beginner to boating I have bought what I believe to be is a sixties swift craft to restore. I have tried to upload a photo but had no luck. It is about 4 M long, has a cut off bow, a windscreen that is about 5 or six hundred high and wraps around the dash in one curved piece, and is a mustard brown colour.
If anyone can tell me how to upload pics I would be grateful.

I am just curious to know if anyone knows the exact year and the name of the model?
I also have an old 55 HP Johnson, will it be powerful enough to have a but of fun in?

Thanks, Al.

 

[Woodonglass]

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Welcome to iBoats!!!
OPen a Free Photobucket account. UPload your pics. Change to the OLD version of Photobucket, NOT the new one. (Upper right corner) Hover over the uploaded pic. Window will open, click the bottom selection ( IMG Code) Paste this img code into your iBoats thread.

 

[chrome dome]

Re: A little help working out the year and name of my old swiftcraft

G'day
there is a number of 70's Swiftcraft models around so a photo or two would be good,
just dunno if they were around in the 60's though...probably

runabout, half cabin, cuddy cabin?

you will have plenty of fun in it with your 55...the most fun ya can have with yer strides still on

 

[big-bad_al]

Re: A little help working out the year and name of my old swiftcraftt

Re: A little help working out the year and name of my old swiftcraftt

Welcome to iBoats!!!
OPen a Free Photobucket account. UPload your pics. Change to the OLD version of Photobucket, NOT the new one. (Upper right corner) Hover over the uploaded pic. Window will open, click the bottom selection ( IMG Code) Paste this img code into your iBoats thread.

Thanks for the tip Woodonglass,
I took your advise and opened a photobucket account. Mobile Photobucket

 

[big-bad_al]

Re: A little help working out the year and name of my old swiftcraft

G'day
there is a number of 70's Swiftcraft models around so a photo or two would be good,
just dunno if they were around in the 60's though...probably

runabout, half cabin, cuddy cabin?

you will have plenty of fun in it with your 55...the most fun ya can have with yer strides still on

Thanks Chrome Done,
I have uploaded photos on photobucket. Hope you can help.
Mobile Photobucket

 

[chrome dome]

Re: A little help working out the year and name of my old swiftcraft

sorry mate, l don't know what year or model it is,
certainly looks 60ish though, specially with that FJ looking steering wheel,

 

[big-bad_al]

Re: A little help working out the year and name of my old swiftcraft

sorry mate, l don't know what year or model it is,
certainly looks 60ish though, specially with that FJ looking steering wheel,

Yeah, thanks anyway. The steering wheel is a XP falcon wheel. Looks great I recon!

 

[jbcurt00]

Re: A little help working out the year and name of my old swiftcraft

Not much to go on, but there's been at least 1 other SwiftCraft that has the same yellow (gold) & white around here somewhere..... But I can't find that thread right at the moment.......

 

[big-bad_al]

Re: A little help working out the year and name of my old swiftcraft

Not much to go on, but there's been at least 1 other SwiftCraft that has the same yellow (gold) & white around here somewhere..... But I can't find that thread right at the moment.......

Thanks jb,
I hope we can find out!

 

[mark1961]

Re: A little help working out the year and name of my old swiftcraft

It might be swiftcraft persuite XV.....some better quality pics might help......is it about 4.2m?

 

[jbcurt00]

Re: A little help working out the year and name of my old swiftcraft

There are a few (62+/-) Swiftcrafts @ Gumtree.com.au

This is listed as a Swiftcraft 1500:

No model, but very close:

Bow looks wrong to be a Stilleto:

Nor a Falcon:

Another no model, but looks to be correct:

Not much info out there, good luck.......

 

[big-bad_al]

Re: A little help working out the year and name of my old swiftcraft

Wow, Thanks jb.
There are other photos of the boat on my photobucket profile big-bad_al's Library | Photobucket
I appreciate the research mate, the boat is just 4.0m long and I am judging by the XP steering wheel its a 66 model.