Secondhand
ABs change hands quietly, usually between families at the club. These are the ones we know about.
6 boats available.
8 photosAB 111
£650
A well-loved wooden boat that has been owned and successfully sailed by a few local Parkstone families. Before us she belonged to the Greeno family, and went through a…
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6 photosAB 418
£3,000
This isn't a project. It's a passage. FoxSea (previously named SpaceHopper) has been part of our family since 2019. Both my children learned to sail in her, and she has…
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7 photosAB 190
£525
A good, honest, usable boat, and ready to go. A well-loved AB — sturdy, stable, and in good overall condition. The sails are well used but have some good crispness, and…
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5 photosAB 311
£700
An honest, usable boat, and ready to go. Expertly named, well loved, and a great example of a 300 series AB. Stable and light, with enclosed sides. She is showing signs…
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9 photosAB 427
£2,300
GRP hull with wooden decks — fast, dry and safe. Very easy to sail and maintain. She has been dry stored for the past 12 months. Sad to say goodbye, but she is not being…
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13 photosAB 193
£950
Lovingly restored to an excellent condition by Grandad. One of the original fibreglass hull and wooden deck boats — light and fast, with undoubted race-winning potential.…
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Keeping her going
ABs are wooden boats that get sailed hard by children, so most of them need someone at some point — a rigging check before the season, a repair after a hard beat, rope and fittings when the old ones give up. Two places near the club that fleet families use.
Chandlery
Rope, fittings and the small parts a boat eats through — sheets, shackles, shockcord. Near the club, which matters when you need something on a Saturday morning.
Repairs and rigging
Repairs, general maintenance, rigging checks, and rebuilds — a business that describes itself as specialising in dinghies and small yachts, which is exactly what an AB is. Creekmoor, Poole.
Listed because fleet families use them, not through any arrangement — the class takes nothing from either and neither has asked to be here. If you know somewhere else that does good work on an AB,say so.
Before you buy
Ask to see the boat out of the water and look along the hull for splits or soft patches, particularly where the centreboard case meets the hull. Check the transom and the rudder fittings take a firm pull.
Find out what goes with her — sail, spars, foils, cover, launching trolley. A boat sold without a trolley is a boat you cannot get to the water.
These listings are placed by owners. The class and the club take no part in the sale and give no warranty about any boat — see her yourself, and take someone who has sailed one.