Two hundred feet of steel yacht that can anchor where the water turns that impossible Bahamian green. The Benetti B.NOW 60M's defining number is not its length — it is the 9'6" draft, shallow for a 197-foot displacement yacht, and the difference between reading about the Exumas and anchoring in them.
Who This Boat Is For
The B.NOW 60M is for the owner who wants serious long-range cruising with the Oasis Deck way of living — twelve guests in six cabins, thirteen crew in nine cabins, and usable outdoor space that embarrasses yachts fifty feet longer. The crew ratio matters more than it photographs: nobody hot-bunking, nobody cutting corners in week six of a Mediterranean season. Crew retention is the operating factor owners consistently underestimate, and it is bought at the design stage or not at all.
The Space
The B.NOW 60M measures 196'10" overall on a 34'9" beam, at 1,080 gross tons. The Oasis Deck delivers roughly 1,400 square feet of main-deck outdoor living with a coverable infinity pool — at this point in the range that space stops being a feature and starts being the layout. The main deck adds some 2,200 square feet more. The steel displacement hull under it all is built for decades and sea-kindliness, not for headlines.
Propulsion and Endurance
Twin 1,400 hp MAN V12 diesels drive a 15.5-knot maximum and an 11-knot cruise, drawing from a 23,115-gallon fuel capacity and 5,283 gallons of water. At 11 knots this is genuine ocean range — transatlantic legs without a fuel stop — rather than a brochure number that assumes flat water and an empty boat. Have consumption documented on trial at the speeds your seasons will actually use.
The Tonnage Question
Price in the regulatory line before you fall for the layout: at 1,080 GT this boat is comfortably over the 500-ton threshold, which sets your crewing requirements and certification regime for as long as you own it. If that number gives you pause, look hard at the B.NOW 52M, engineered to sit just under the line at roughly 499 GT. If it does not, the 60M is the sweet spot of the range.
Where to Start
Walk it against the 52M and the 67M in the same week if you can. The B.NOW concept is constant across the line — the Oasis Deck, the steel hull, the displacement pace — so the decision reduces to guest count, tonnage regime and draft. On all three, the 60M is the range's best-balanced answer.