[1][2][5][6][7][8] The design was built by Kang Nam Shipbuilders in South Korea, from 1979 until 1984, but it is now out of production.
[1][2][9][10] The Swift 40 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim.
It has a masthead ketch rig with a keel-stepped mast, a raked stem, an angled transom, a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel.
The galley is located on the port side just forward of the companionway ladder.
A navigation station is opposite the galley, on the starboard side.