Benetti's hybrid 67m Symmetry goes to charter at EUR 725,000 a week

A series hull with a battery pack

Symmetry is the fourth B.Now 67M Benetti has built and one of the first two in the class to carry hybrid propulsion. Her sistership Dagger followed her into the water about three weeks later. The arrangement pairs the main engines with the generators and a battery bank, moving between them according to what the yacht is actually doing at the time.

The case for it is not only fuel. A battery that can carry the hotel load overnight takes the generator out of the anchorage, and quiet at anchor is the part guests register first. Benetti launched her in Livorno and delivered at the end of June.

The charter price is the part to watch

West Nautical, which acted as owner's representative and project manager through the build, has her on the charter market at EUR 725,000 a week. Until now the premium for a hybrid drive on a 60-metre-plus build has been argued in the abstract, with yards quoting efficiency figures and brokers guessing at what the market would pay for them.

Here the two sit on the same yacht. An owner deciding whether to specify a battery bank on his own build now has a delivered hull, a known platform and a published weekly rate to point at rather than a projection.

Why a class beats a one-off at resale

RWD drew the exterior and Reymond Langton the interior. She takes 12 guests and 17 crew, with the Oasis deck aft, the infinity pool and the fold-out side wings that Benetti has turned into the signature of the range.

Four hulls in, the B.Now 67M is beginning to behave like a class rather than a series of one-offs. That gives a broker real comparables when one of them comes back to the market, which is exactly what a full-custom 67-metre never has.