Mamba 29 Sailboats for Sale

Layouts on the Used Market

The Mamba 29 carries a 9-foot-7-inch beam on a 28.5-foot hull, a length-to-beam ratio of 3.04 that makes her roomier than just over half of similar designs, with a 26-gallon water tank setting the coastal cruising envelope. The fin keel was offered in iron or lead, and that choice — not the deck plan — is the first differentiator among used boats.

Equipment and Common Upgrades

On the Danish market these boats commonly carry AIS, autopilot, chartplotter, and a short-handed setup that lets a single sailor manage the slightly overrigged fractional rig. For a buyer, the meaningful clusters are navigation — chartplotter and AIS together give coastal situational awareness — and sail handling, where the short-handed setup reduces crew demand on a boat whose genoa-sheet and mainsheet runs are already specified at 29 and 73 feet. Autopilot rounds out the solo-cruising picture but says nothing about engine or keel condition.

What to Inspect

The one documented caveat is that the Mamba 29 was also sold as a home-completion kit, so the quality of each boat may vary. A buyer should confirm whether a candidate is a factory BK Marin hull or a home-finished one and inspect the fiberglass solid hull and deck for consistency of layup and finish. Where the iron fin keel is fitted rather than lead, the keel itself warrants close examination.

Availability and Buyer's Takeaway

These boats are typically found in Denmark. For a buyer, the short list is: verify factory versus home-completed status; confirm lead or iron keel and inspect accordingly; check that the common short-handed and navigation gear is functional; and accept a 3.8-knot maximum under power as the realistic docking speed. The Mamba 29 rewards the careful shopper with a stiff, light-air coastal sloop whose main variable is the hand that finished her.