At 236 feet, most superyachts add formality. The Benetti B.NOW 72M adds water: a 250-square-meter Oasis Deck with a central pool, opened to the sea on three sides, reserved for guests only. It is the largest beach club configuration Benetti has ever built, and the entire yacht is arranged around it.
Who This Boat Is For
The B.NOW 72M is for the owner who measures a yacht by how it lives at anchor, at scale: sixteen guests in eight cabins, seventeen crew in eight cabins, and a deck plan that erases the boundary between the interior and the sea. This is a fully crewed, professionally managed operation — at 1,950 gross tons, it is a small ship — and the reward is space and privacy that few yachts at any length can match.
The Oasis Deck
The signature space puts a pool at the center of a 250-square-meter deck that opens over the water. Benetti's B.NOW argument is that the beach club should not be a garage-sized afterthought at the waterline but the social heart of the yacht — and at 72 meters the argument is settled decisively. Guest-only access keeps it a private beach rather than a thoroughfare.
The Platform
The B.NOW 72M measures 236'3" overall on a 42'0" beam and an 11'6" draft. Propulsion is diesel mechanical with Benetti's E-Mode hybrid available — a 16-knot maximum and a 12-knot cruise, with the hybrid option cutting generator run time at anchor and extending endurance at displacement speeds. The hull is drawn for quiet, long-range exploration: ocean crossings and long South Pacific seasons are the design case, not the exception.
Trial and consumption verification at this level is your captain's program; the owner's job is to be clear about the routes the yacht should be proven against.
Within the Range
The B.NOW 67M delivers the same Oasis Deck concept at 220 feet with fourteen guests. The B.YOND 57M is the expedition-flavored alternative — less beach club, more workboat DNA. Inside the B.NOW line, the question is simply how much scale your program justifies; the concept does not change, the square meters do.
Where to Start
Board it from the water, the way your guests will. The Oasis Deck's case is made barefoot, from a tender, with the pool ahead of you and the sea behind — and once you have seen it that way, every conventional beach club will look like a compromise.