Bandholm 35 Buyer's Guide
Shopping the brokerage market for a used Bandholm 35 means looking at a late-seventies Danish cruiser designed by Knud Olsen with Mogens Lorentzen and built initially by Mariboat, later by other yards, with some hulls sold as home-completion kits. The 35-foot hull carries a fin keel, skeg rudder, and a Volvo Penta diesel on a saildrive, and her sandwich fibreglass construction was meant to keep the cabin dry in cold water. Most used examples will be found in Danish waters.
Layouts on the Used Market
Because the design was released both as a finished boat and as a kit for home completion, the used fleet splits between yard-finished and amateur-built interiors, all sharing the same teak-faced accommodation and beamy 3.20 length-to-beam proportion that gives more roominess than half of similar designs. A buyer should expect the professional builds to show consistent tabbing and systems, while a home-completed hull may reveal owner-derived layouts or joinery that departs from the original. The fin keel draws between 5.91 and 6.21 feet by load, so any mooring or lift plan must assume major-marina depth.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
On the used market a spinnaker and a chartplotter are commonly fitted, the former matching the boat's documented spinnaker-sheet spec of 23.4 meters and the latter a modern navigation addition over the original late-seventies suite. Beyond those, buyers should focus on energy and sail-handling consequences rather than creature comforts: the Volvo Penta MD11/110S diesel and saildrive are the core propulsion, and a masthead rig with 14 mm sheets throughout means running rigging is straightforward to renew. Canvas and sail-handling upgrades tend to follow the spinnaker provision, while navigation clusters around the chartplotter; comfort items are secondary to verifying the drivetrain.
What to Inspect
The defining inspection point is build provenance. Because some Bandholm 35s were sold to be home-completed, which means that the quality of each boat may vary, a survey must assess structural joinery and systems integration rather than assume yard standard. The sandwich hull and deck should be checked for delamination given the insulating void, and the iron keel for corrosion at the hull joint. The saildrive seal and the 23-horsepower plant are period items whose service history matters more than cosmetic presentation.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
The typical market for these boats is Denmark, where most used examples will surface. For a shopper, the short checklist is: confirm whether the hull is yard- or home-completed, survey the sandwich structure and iron keel joint, verify the saildrive and Volvo Penta history, and accept the draft limit of major marinas only. A professionally built example is the safer cruiser; a home-completed one is a project with unknown margins.
Price & volume trends
Monthly asking-price and listing-volume trends for the Bandholm 35. The line shows the median ask each month; the bars show how many listings appeared.
Monthly breakdown · 1 row
| Month | Listings | Median ask | Δ vs. last mo. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25 | 1 | $23,228 | — |
Where they're listed
Bandholm 35 listings appear across 1 country. Denmark has the most listings with 1.
Country view
1 listings · 1 country| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denmark | $23,228 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
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