1. Nautor, in order to construct perfect and absolutely rigid hulls, fuse with resin into the interior of the two shells during construction a series of transversal and longitudinal joists which create a network of panels no more than a metre square each, which confer great strength to the torsion and rigidity of the hull.

2. All the boats are constructed and certified following the standards and norms of the Lloyd's Hulls Construction Certificate, and are furthermore examined independently from the shipyard by the experts at Lloyd's.

3. All, or almost all, abord a Swan is built in the shipyard itself, especially the steel and aluminium parts, including the masts and the toerails which are each anodized internally, in special baths.

4. The interiors are built in a workshop by carpenters, and before being installed in the actual yacht, are "tested" (as would a suit at the tailor's) in a special boat, especially designed for this purpose. Only after any minor discrepancy, normal in such craftsman-made items, is fixed, and everything is perfect, are the items brought to the workshop with the yachts' hulls, to be installed, paying careful attention to the coating with resin of the bulkheads before their painting, for a perfect adhesion with the synthetic glues, with which the wooden bulkheads are joined to the hull.

5. Nautor has only highly specialized staff, and in particular architects and engineers who will work on site on all their executable drawings, and who will examine under close scrutiny all the smallest and even apparently insignificant details of construction. Nothing is ever produced without being first subjected to study and especially to in-depth tests.

6. How many shipyards can declare that they can provide their clients of every boat with practically any piece of their yacht for repairs, even if they might be over 30 years old? Nautor can!

7. If the owner of a Swan so desires, and of course if he is willing to cover the possibly quite substantial costs, he can have a Nautor technician come to examine the boat to ensure the perfect execution of any major work undertaken, or to consult or advise on work to be done.

8. Nautor, justifiably it can be said, but also because it is the only shipyard ever to do so since its inception, keeps in its archives a dossier where each and every difference relative to the standard model, of every Swan at the moment of its launch. This data is however noted in the Owner's Manual, a copy of which will always be available in the shipyard.

9. It is said that Swan boats are unique, and many have in efect have tried to imitate them (to not say copy them; commissioning the same naval architects…), but with results which in time show themselves to be wanting. And also, why have a copy if the original is available?

10. A Swan, even being a boat of the 1960s or 1970s, or a later one of the most recent generation, has an inimitable character, and, in its lines, never overstated in modernity, is, and will forever be, timeless.

© 2005 S&S Swan Association