S&S Impala 35 Buyer's Guide
The S&S Impala 35 you meet on the brokerage market is a 1969-onward Sparkman & Stephens masthead sloop built by Cantieri Navali 71, a pantographed growth of the S&S 34 with a more pronounced deckhouse and a mid-ship engine hatch. Its 10.45-meter length and 6.34-tonne displacement mark it as a serious offshore hull rather than a daysailer, and the boats that survive tend to have been owned by sailors who valued that brief.
Layouts on the Used Market
Every Impala 35 carries the same period layout: a port quarter berth aft of the companionway with a charting station immediately forward, a starboard galley, and a central dinette whose settees and table convert to extra berths, closing with a forward V-berth for two cabins and three sleepers plus dinette. The engine under the hatch with its shaft exiting between keel and skeg means the saloon centerline stays clear, a point worth confirming in person since a relocated or re-engined example would depart from the standard arrangement.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
Boats in this class commonly carry a heating system, inverter, hot water, autopilot, and chartplotter as factory or early owner fitments, so a listed example without them is the exception rather than the rule. For a buyer, the cluster matters: heating and hot water speak to livability at anchor in cool seasons, while inverter and chartplotter with autopilot define whether the boat is ready for short-handed passage work or still needs a navigation refit. Beyond those, expect little standardization — canvas and sail-handling gear vary by owner.
What to Inspect
The known structural facts center on the hull being solid fiberglass with lead ballast and a skeg-hung rudder behind a semi-long fin. Pay attention to the engine hatch arrangement and the shaft exit half a length between keel and skeg, since any deviation signals prior surgery. The deckhouse profile should be more pronounced than an S&S 34's; a flattened or cut cabin top would indicate modification. Inspection should follow normal glass-hull and rig diligence.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
Impala 35s turn up most readily in the Netherlands and Greece. For a shopper, the takeaway is straightforward: confirm the standard layout and engine placement, verify the common heat/inverter/hot-water/autopilot/chartplotter fitment, and treat the skeg rudder and solid hull as the backbone of any survey. A clean example with its original Stephens profile intact is the boat as drawn; anything else is an owner's interpretation.
Price & volume trends
Monthly asking-price and listing-volume trends for the S&S Impala 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. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26 | 1 | $88,454 | — |
Where they're listed
S&S Impala 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 | $88,454 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
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