Benetti Sells a Second B.Yond 57M, This Buyer Stays Private

What did Benetti confirm about the second B.Yond 57M sale?

Benetti has sold a second B.Yond 57M for delivery in 2028, brokered by Edmiston through buyer's representative Charles Carveles, one year behind the first hull, which is under construction now for a 2027 handover.

BOAT International reported the sale on 22 September 2026, naming Edmiston as the broker and Charles Carveles as the representative who worked the deal for the buyer. Construction on the first B.Yond 57M is already underway, with that hull due in 2027, so the second buyer has effectively bought the next available build slot rather than a speculative future one. Benetti did not attach a price to either sale, and the report is otherwise thin on the buyer: no nationality, no prior-yacht history, nothing beyond the fact that a contract exists and a broker's name attached to it.

The gap matters because the first B.Yond 57M sold fast: Benetti signed that contract within weeks of the model's Monaco Yacht Show debut in 2024, a pace that reads as much as a statement about demand as about the boat itself. A second sale landing two years later, with no fresh press push behind it and no show stand to draw the buyer in, is a steadier signal: someone went looking for this specific model on its own merits. It also lands inside a busy order book. Benetti currently has 40 yachts on order or under construction across its ranges, so the B.Yond 57M is competing for yard capacity and management attention against everything else the builder has sold. The B.Yond line itself sits alongside a smaller B.Yond 40M in Benetti's range, both sharing the same hybrid-first brief, so a second 57M sale also tests demand at the larger end of that pairing specifically, not just for the concept in general.

What makes the B.Yond 57M different from a standard 57-metre yacht?

The B.Yond 57M pairs a hybrid-electric propulsion system built for zero-emission cruising with a direct expansion HVAC system Benetti says cuts consumption by up to 80 per cent against a conventional water-based system, on top of a convertible garage deck that turns into a 260-square-metre lounge.

The hybrid-electric system is built specifically to let the yacht run on electric power alone at anchor or in slow-speed manoeuvring, the two situations where a conventional diesel yacht burns fuel for comfort rather than for motion. The direct expansion HVAC system is a more concrete number: Benetti states it cuts energy consumption by up to 80 per cent compared with the chilled-water systems most yachts this size still run, which matters directly to an owner because air conditioning and hot water are two of the largest continuous loads on a 57-metre operating in the Mediterranean summer. The range also carries EcoDeck in place of teak, along with FSC-certified woods and lower-impact fabrics throughout, sustainability choices built into the base specification rather than sold as an options-list add-on. Direct expansion HVAC cools air by running refrigerant straight through the cabin-side coils rather than chilling water first and pumping that water around the yacht, cutting out one whole heat-exchange step and the pump load that goes with it, which is where most of the stated saving comes from.

The layout is built around a 22-metre run of uninterrupted open space from bow to stern, and a garage deck that converts into a 260-square-metre indoor-outdoor lounge once the tenders and toys are in the water, rather than staying a service space for the rest of the charter or cruise. Buyers choose from three stern configurations at the order stage: Beach, built around a 161.8-square-metre beach area with a 15-square-metre pool and a sliding sofa system; Air, arranged around a helipad and veranda; and Water, built out for exploration equipment storage. The first buyer chose Beach. Which configuration the second buyer picked has not been disclosed.

Why is Benetti not disclosing the second buyer's choices?

BOAT International's own report states plainly that details on hull two remain private, a contrast to hull one's fully publicised Beach configuration and features, and a common enough pattern in brokerage where a repeat or discretion-minded buyer asks the yard to say less, not more.

A yard that happily detailed the first buyer's beach club, pool and sofa layout down to the square metre choosing to say nothing at all about the second is a deliberate decision, not an oversight. Brokerage sales of this size routinely carry confidentiality terms the buyer sets, not the yard, especially for a repeat superyacht owner or one who values staying out of trade press entirely. Edmiston and Benetti both had the same opportunity to publicise this sale the way the first one was publicised, and chose not to.

For an owner comparing the B.Yond 57M against rival 55 to 60-metre hybrids, the practical effect is that only one of the two sold hulls offers a public reference point for layout, configuration and finish. Anyone specifying a third hull, if Benetti opens one, has exactly one disclosed precedent to work from and one undisclosed one, and no public price on either to anchor a negotiation against. That is a real gap for a buyer's brief, not a minor omission, and it is worth asking the yard directly rather than assuming hull two simply repeated hull one's choices.

What should an owner weighing a B.Yond 57M actually check before ordering?

With both available near-term slots now sold, for 2027 and 2028, a new order goes to the back of a 40-boat order book, and no owner reports exist yet on either hull because neither has been delivered.

Both of Benetti's first two B.Yond 57M delivery slots are now spoken for, 2027 and 2028, so a buyer ordering today is realistically looking at 2029 or later, a fact worth weighing against any rival yard quoting a shorter wait for a comparable hybrid hull. The stern configuration choice, Beach, Air or Water, is not a cosmetic pick: it reshapes the aft third of the boat and, on the evidence of hull one, becomes the yacht's defining feature in any future resale listing, so it deserves the same attention as engine or range specification at the order stage.

No independent owner or sea-trial reports exist for the B.Yond 57M yet, since neither hull has been built or delivered, so every efficiency figure in this story, including the 80 per cent HVAC saving, is Benetti's own stated number rather than a verified in-service result. An owner should treat the hybrid and HVAC claims as the yard's engineering target until a delivered hull produces real running data, and ask Benetti directly what happens to delivery order if a third buyer steps forward before hull one or two is finished, since a builder juggling a 40-yacht order book does not always hold slots in the sequence they were sold.