Benetti's 67m Dagger Turns a Hybrid Hull Into a Private Gallery

What is Dagger, and how does she differ from her sister ship Symmetry?

Dagger and Symmetry share the same 67-metre B.Now 67M Oasis Deck hull and the same hybrid machinery, but Benetti built each interior around an opposite brief: Symmetry for the charter market, Dagger around one owner's private art collection.

Dagger launched at Benetti's Livorno yard in February 2026, three weeks behind Symmetry, the two hulls together putting 134 metres of newly launched superyacht in the water inside a month. Both are steel-hulled, aluminium-superstructured members of the B.Now 67M Oasis Deck series, and both carry Benetti's second and third hybrid installations to date. Where the two part company is the brief: Symmetry went straight onto the charter market at a published rate of EUR 725,000 a week, the first hard number the market has had for a hybrid yacht of this size. Dagger was built for an unnamed private owner around a single, unpublicised request - dedicated space to display an art collection - and she has no charter listing. Dagger is the fourth hull in the wider B.Now 67M series and only the second to carry the hybrid system; two earlier, non-hybrid hulls preceded the pair, including Lady Estey, which had her own debut at the Monaco Yacht Show.

Exterior styling on both hulls is by the British studio RWD, so the family resemblance is deliberate: the same Oasis Deck, the same fold-out side wings that double the beach club, the same silhouette. The split runs through the interior architects instead. Symmetry's cabins were drawn by Reymond Langton Design around a pale, crystal-heavy palette built around a sculptural ice-effect chandelier. Dagger went to Sinot Yacht Architecture & Design, working in nine different wood species and natural tones expressly to give paintings and sculpture a backdrop that does not compete with them. Benetti's own sales director, Daniela Petrozzi, framed the pair together: owners, she said, are 'no longer looking just for a yacht, but for a more conscious and authentic way to experience the sea.'

What does the art gallery concept actually mean on board?

Dagger's galleries are not a themed lounge but a set of built structures - recessed wall niches with dedicated spotlighting and custom shelving rated to carry sculpture - distributed through the yacht's living spaces rather than concentrated in one room.

The brief, as Benetti and the trade press covering the launch describe it, came from the owner directly: multiple dedicated art showcases running through the interior, not a single gallery deck. That means recessed, individually lit wall niches sized for paintings in the main saloon and circulation spaces, plus custom shelving engineered to carry the load and vibration profile of sculpture at sea - a different structural and electrical specification from a normal display cabinet, since it has to survive a seaway and still present the piece correctly lit at anchor.

Six decks carry the concept, including Benetti's now-standard Oasis Deck: an infinity pool with fold-down bulkheads that open the space to the sea when at anchor and close it into a sheltered saloon underway. The hybrid propulsion system feeds directly into how usable that art collection actually is in practice - batteries can carry hotel loads and slow-speed cruising in near silence, and gensets recover waste heat for the pool and domestic water, which matters for a boat meant to be lived aboard at anchor for long stretches rather than run hard between ports.

What can Dagger's hybrid system actually do, and where do the two sources disagree?

The hybrid architecture combines two 1,900hp Caterpillar main engines, generators and a battery pack that can be run independently or blended, giving roughly 4,500 nautical miles of range at 12 knots and a documented, if disputed, guest capacity.

The system's three elements - main engines, generators, batteries - can each carry the load alone or work in combination, with variable-pitch propellers adjusting blade angle to the duty cycle rather than running a fixed geometry. In practice that means the batteries can power hotel loads and slow manoeuvring without the generators running at all, cutting both fuel burn and the vibration and noise that reach guest cabins - the same pitch Benetti made for Symmetry's charter guests applies just as directly to an owner sitting beside a painting he does not want humming. The battery pack uses lithium-ion cells, though Benetti has not published their capacity or how many hours they can sustain hotel loads before the generators are needed - one more figure a buyer comparing hybrid platforms should ask for directly.

Reported guest capacity does not agree across the trade press: Megayacht News, reporting on Dagger specifically, puts her at 12 guests in 6 staterooms with 13 crew; YachtBuyer's coverage of the pair states 16 guests across 8 cabins for the B.Now 67M Oasis model generally. Neither figure is sourced to a published Benetti spec sheet in the coverage seen, and the gap is plausible on its own terms - Dagger's owner traded cabin count for gallery space, which is exactly the kind of full-custom departure from a semi-custom platform's brochure numbers that a buyer commissioning a similar hull needs to ask about directly rather than assume from a sister ship.

What should a buyer take from Dagger before commissioning a similar hull?

Dagger is the clearest recent proof that a semi-custom hybrid platform can still be pulled into a genuinely full-custom brief, but the price of that flexibility is a guest capacity and delivery timeline that will not match the yard's stock configuration.

Benetti has not published pricing for either hull, and delivery for Dagger is stated only as later in 2026, without a firm month - normal for a fully custom interior fit-out running behind a semi-custom hull and machinery package that Symmetry took delivery of first. A buyer comparing the B.Now 67M Oasis platform against a full-custom yard should read Dagger as the upper bound of what the semi-custom route can flex to accommodate, not the baseline: the hull, machinery and exterior lines are shared and therefore faster and cheaper to specify than a clean-sheet design, but a request as structural as gallery-grade wall niches still touches naval architecture, not just soft furnishing.

The practical read for anyone drawing up a similar brief is to get cabin count, tonnage and weight-and-balance figures confirmed in writing against the specific interior request before signing, rather than assuming the model's published brochure numbers will hold - Dagger's own conflicting guest-count reports in the trade press are a small but real illustration of how quickly a full-custom interior request moves a semi-custom hull away from its stock specification sheet. Symmetry's own three-week head start suggests a similar gap is realistic for any owner ordering a fourth or fifth hull now, since Benetti has shown no sign of shortening the interval between hulls in the series.