Diva 35 Buyer's Guide
Shopping the brokerage market for a Diva 35 means looking at a Swedish-built Lindquist design from the early eighties, a slim lightweight cruiser-racer with a lead fin keel and a famously powerful rig. Most used examples will have seen coastal sailing rather than world circumnavigation, and the boat's character is best judged by its numbers and its running gear.
Layouts on the Used Market
The Diva 35 was produced as a fractional-sloop cruiser with a solid fiberglass hull and a fixed lead keel drawing roughly six feet depending on load. Below decks the standard layout includes a galley and a toilet facility; the accommodation is functional coastal-weekender grade rather than long-range liveaboard. With a length-to-beam ratio of 3.27 the hull is narrower than most comparable 35-footers, so interior volume follows a slender profile rather than a beamy loft.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
Used Diva 35s in this market commonly carry heating, hot water, autopilot, and a chartplotter as factory or dealer-fitted equipment, which together make Netherlands waterways cruising practical through the cooler months. The autopilot and chartplotter are the consequential items for a single-handed or short-handed buyer, reducing watch burden on the often light-air estuaries where these boats sail. Heating and hot water speak to comfort rather than speed, but their presence separates a maintained family boat from a stripped racer.
What to Inspect
The Diva 35's lead fin keel should be checked for grounding damage and the solid fiberglass hull for stress at the keel sump, given the 3,902-pound ballast carried on a 6-foot fin anchor. The rig is significantly overrigged — more than 85 percent of similar sailboats — so inspect all halyards (34.5 m, 12 mm) and sheets (14 mm, up to 27 m for the mainsheet) for internal fatigue and winch wear anchor. The capsize screening value of 2.00 confirms the boat is not an offshore design, so verify the installed diesel is the Yanmar 2GV20 at 18 hp and that cooling and fuel systems match a coastal runner rather than a passage maker.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
The typical market for the Diva 35 is the Netherlands, where coastal and inland waterways suit its light-displacement, high-ballast profile. For a buyer, the short checklist is: confirm the lead keel and solid hull are sound, verify the overrigged running rigging is fresh, and expect commonly fitted heating, hot water, autopilot, and chartplotter rather than offshore preparation.
- Sound lead fin keel and solid fiberglass hull
- Fresh 12 mm halyards and 14 mm sheets
- Yanmar 2GV20 diesel present and serviced
- Heating, hot water, autopilot, chartplotter as standard comforts
Price & volume trends
Monthly asking-price and listing-volume trends for the Diva 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. |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26 | 1 | $34,776 | — |
Where they're listed
Diva 35 listings appear across 1 country. Netherlands has the most listings with 1.
Country view
1 listings · 1 country| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | $34,776 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Comparable models
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8 similar designs| Model | LOA | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beneteau First 35 | 35.17' | $ 68,399 | 52 | 13 |
| Artekno H-35 | 35' | $ 11,375 | 27 | 5 |
| J-Boats J/35 | 35.5' | $ 25,770 | 23 | 6 |
| Scanmar 35 | 35.1' | $ 38,000 | 13 | 5 |
| Bavaria Match 35 | 34.5' | $ 73,014 | 8 | 3 |
| Saga 35 | 36.5' | $ 89,000 | 7 | 4 |
| Baltic 35 | 34.83' | $ 67,025 | 3 | 0 |
| Diva 35You are here | — | $ 34,776 | 1 | 0 |