Going boating is the fastest way to a slower pace of life.

ABC Leisure Group Limited has been building and operating a hire fleet and providing full marina services to canal users for over 30 years, with a thorough experience of everything to do with narrowboats and boating holidays.

Formerly known as Alvechurch Boat Centres, ABC Leisure Group owns 8 boat yards throughout the UK Inland Waterway system, with their narrowboat hire fleet, UK Boat Hire, operating from these and a further 3 locations.

The company operates under a number of brands, with notable boat building and chandlery operations in addition to the individual services and shops at each boat yard. The UK Boat Hire holiday fleet incorporating Alvechurch Waterway Holidays, Viking Afloat Narrowboat Holidays , Wessex Narrowboats and Red Line Boats.

Narrow boats … … wide horizons