![]() Then open the side gate and quickly pin the boat to the dock using the nearby spring cleat. It’s entirely possible to stand on the starboard side deck just outside the pilothouse door, and manoeuvre the Bénéteau Swift Trawler 50 into the tightest of berths using the joystick (perfectly located just inside the door). ![]() Under way, helmsman cannot see aft through the saloon doors, but it’s easy to use the side door to check aft. Moreover, its efficiency only started to exceed 1.0mpg once it dropped below 10 knots at 9.2 knots for instance, its 1.15mpg was level pegging with the 56 tonne Nordhavn 55 I tested (MBY August 2008). Those impediments produced a boat that exhibited disappointing fuel efficiency, e.g. However, the 16 tonne (light) Bénéteau Swift Trawler 50 is around 20% heavier, has a small keel and a lot more windage, plus it carries a little more beam. Our test was an unusual one, a swift dash across the channel from the Hamble to the boat’s home port of St Helier in Jersey.Īctually, swift is a little generous – 21 knots flat out is a modest speed for a 50 footer fitted with twin 435hp IPS600, even one like ours with its tanks full of fuel.įor example, the 50-foot Prestige 500 we tested (MBY September 2011) achieved 28 knots with identical power plants. Cross channel dash: Driving the Bénéteau Swift Trawler 50 Only time will tell, but I suspect the interior may endure wear and tear quite well. However, although it may ultimately lack the top-class finish evident on more expensive trawlers, Bénéteau has shrewdly used solid timber for the parts likely to sustain the worst wear: door frames, fiddles, drawer fronts and so on. So Bénéteau’s archetypal mass-produced furniture takes the place of the solid chunks of teak you might find on more traditional trawlers. The car we tested had the optional six speed automatic with paddle shifters, although the standard six speed manual is a great proposition for a vehicle like this.Įven though it doesn’t have a limited slip differential, its light weight and well-tuned suspension mean it is not overly missed, given you have some level of throttle control.Good headroom and invaluable ventilation in the master cabin. The engine is much more potent than you would expect and has a lively responsive nature, even from low in the rev range. The weight advantage closes the straight line performance gap massively and also translates to improved dynamics and economy. ![]() Weighing in at only 970kg (kerb) for the manual and 990kg (kerb) for the auto, it’s over 200kg lighter than the Ford Fiesta ST and 300kg less than a VW Polo GTI. ![]() While on paper these numbers are well below that of its main rivals – all within the vicinity of 150kW – the Swift Sport achieves much of its performance due to its light weight. The Suzuki Swift Sport has a 1.4-litre ‘BoosterJet’ four-cylinder turbo charged petrol engine, with 103kW of power at 5500rpm and 230Nm of torque from 2500 to 3000rpm. ![]()
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