Benetti delivers Lady Sarah, the 29th hull of its Oasis 40M

What are Lady Sarah's specifications?

Lady Sarah is a 40.8-metre Benetti Oasis 40M with an 8.5-metre beam, twin MAN V12-1400 diesels rated 1,399 hp each, a 16-knot top speed and a maximum range of 4,000 nautical miles at 11 knots.

LOA: 40.8 m, on an 8.5 m beam, with a maximum draught of 2.14 m. Hull and superstructure are both GRP, classed with RINA, across three decks. YachtBuyer gives her volume as 385 GT and SuperYacht Times as 386 GT, a one-tonne difference in the directories that makes no practical odds.

Accommodation is up to 10 guests in five cabins with nine crew in five cabins. Twin MAN V12-1400 diesels of 1,043 kW each, 1,399 hp apiece, give a top speed of 16 knots and a maximum range of 4,000 nautical miles at 11 knots. Cruising speed is quoted at 12 knots by YachtBuyer and 14 knots by SuperYacht Times. She carries 45,000 litres of fuel and 8,000 litres of fresh water.

Who designed Lady Sarah?

RWD drew the exterior and Benetti handled naval architecture, as on every Oasis 40M, but Lady Sarah adds two further credits - Leonardo Santi Design and Bergomi Interiors - for the bespoke styling that sets hull 29 apart from her sisters.

The exterior is by RWD and the naval architecture is Benetti's own, which is standard across the Oasis line. The interior architecture belongs to Bonetti and Kozerski Architecture DPC, the studio that established the series look. Those three credits are the ones the directories carry.

On this hull two further names sit alongside them. Leonardo Santi Design handled decorative elements and loose furniture, and Bergomi Interiors did the bespoke styling, with pieces specified from Capital Collection, Minotti, Rugiano and SoftHouse. Natural marble replaced the standard bathroom surfaces and a bespoke bronze finish runs through the boat as her visual signature. Those are the changes that separate hull 29 from hull 28.

What makes the Oasis 40M's deck the draw for buyers?

Folding bulwark terraces turn the aft section into a water-level beach club, the single feature Benetti credits with carrying the platform through 29 orders since launch.

The series draw has not changed. Folding bulwark terraces open the aft section into a broad beach club at water level, which is the feature that has carried the platform through 29 orders since launch. It is a comfort-first arrangement on a displacement composite hull, and the 16-knot top speed is a consequence of that choice.

The model has collected outside recognition to match the order count, taking the 2023 YachtBuyer Model Award and a place in that publication's Hall of Fame. Benetti's argument with Lady Sarah is that the platform absorbs heavy personalisation without slipping. The customisation was coordinated to respect the yard's engineering, production workflow and delivery date, which is the harder half of the promise.

How did Lady Sarah's buyer come to own her?

The buyer spent several years chartering in the Mediterranean before a Fraser broker introduced him to Benetti's Middle East area manager at the 2024 Cannes Yachting Festival, where he settled on the Oasis 40M platform.

The route into this boat is documented in unusual detail. The buyer came to Fraser as a charter client and spent several years chartering in the Mediterranean before the conversation turned to ownership. A sales broker then walked him through yachts at the Cannes Yachting Festival in 2024, where a meeting with Benetti's Middle East area manager settled the platform.

Six Fraser departments touched the project after that, covering purchase, project management, crew recruitment, yacht management and charter management. Crew came through The Crew Network and the yacht has gone into Fraser's management fleet. After a first private Mediterranean season she is programmed for the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, then enters charter from the summer of 2027.

Does a 29-hull production run affect resale value?

A platform sold 29 times gives owners a visible reference fleet and known running costs when they come to sell, which tends to hold value better than a one-off custom build with no comparables.

A design sold 29 times is a design the market has already priced. Owners of earlier hulls have a visible reference fleet when they come to sell, and buyers know the layout, the build quality and the running costs before they commit. Long production runs on semi-custom platforms tend to hold value better than one-off builds, because the comparables exist and the yard keeps supporting the line.

The Lady Sarah project adds a second data point on top of that. It shows how far a buyer can push finishes and furniture on a series hull without paying the custom penalty in time. For anyone weighing an Oasis 40M against a bespoke 40-metre, the personalisation ceiling is now a documented figure and not a sales claim.