Benetti's Seanna Resells in a Year, Renamed Mega Global III

Why has Benetti's 65-metre Seanna sold twice in about a year?

Royal Yacht International's own CEO, Tommaso Chiabra, worked both transactions from opposite sides less than fourteen months apart, introducing the buyer in the first sale and then representing the seller when the same yacht, renamed Mega Global III, sold again in August 2026.

Royal Yacht International's own news page dates the second sale to late August 2026, with the firm's release naming Chiabra as the seller's representative on a 64.5-metre Benetti it still calls Seanna. YachtBuyer's account of the same transaction, published 27 August 2026, gives the yacht's current name as Mega Global III and names the buyer's side too: James Clayton and Rachel Ma of Simpson Marine, with Chiabra and RYI colleague Camilla Maurizio on the seller's side. Both accounts agree on the vessel, the yard, the size and the week. The only real difference is which name each is using, RYI defaulting to the yacht's original, better-known identity, YachtBuyer using the name she has actually carried on her registration since the earlier sale.

That earlier sale is the other half of the pattern. In it, Chiabra represented the buyer, the deal that put the yacht into the hands of the owner who renamed her Mega Global III. Roughly thirteen months later, that owner sold her on, this time with Chiabra representing the seller instead. A single broker sitting on opposite sides of two consecutive sales of the same hull is not common, and it means RYI has now handled the yacht through an entire ownership cycle rather than one leg of it.

What is the yacht itself like?

Seanna is a 2011-delivered, steel-hulled 65-metre Benetti with a 2021 refit, Redman Whiteley Dixon interiors, room for 14 guests across seven suites, and an amenity list built around a beach club, a cinema and a helipad rather than outright speed.

Benetti delivered the 1,426 GT yacht in 2011 with naval architecture and exterior styling in-house, interiors by Redman Whiteley Dixon, and decor finished by Susan Young; a 2021 refit brought the boat current without changing her footprint. She carries up to 14 guests in seven cabins, including a full-beam master, and a crew of 17, figures both sides of the August sale agree on. The amenity list leans toward entertaining and downtime rather than range or speed: a cinema with a 100-inch screen, a library with a fireplace, a beach club, a gym and a helipad, aboard a beam of 12.2 metres and a 3.5-metre draft. BOAT International's own yacht directory lists Stefano Natucci as the exterior designer of record alongside Benetti's in-house naval architecture, and places the boat in the top five percent of the world fleet by length; as of the August sale she was tracked at Cala del Forte in Ventimiglia, a marina regularly used for Monaco-adjacent viewings ahead of a transaction.

Propulsion is conventional rather than a selling point in itself. Twin Caterpillar 3516B diesels give her a 17-knot top speed and a 6,000-nautical-mile range at a 12-knot cruise, figures that place her closer to a long-legged charter and entertaining platform than a fast passage-maker. None of that has changed between the two sales; what changed is who owns her, what she is called, and what she was asking.

What does the price gap between the two sales say about the 65-metre Benetti bracket?

The yacht's last known asking price fell from roughly EUR 49.5m at the first sale to roughly EUR 44m at the second, a drop of about EUR 5.5m across thirteen months that neither broker's release explains, and neither side has disclosed either actual sale price.

Both RYI's release and YachtBuyer's report are explicit that the transacted price on the August 2026 sale was not disclosed, which is standard practice in this bracket and not itself unusual. What is measurable is the asking price each side quoted publicly at the time: roughly EUR 49.5m when she last changed hands as Seanna, roughly EUR 44m as Mega Global III went under offer this time. An asking-price drop of that size across a single ownership cycle, on a yacht that had just had a 2021 refit rather than sitting unrefreshed, points to a bracket where sellers are pricing to actually clear rather than holding for a prior peak.

Benetti's 60 to 65-metre resale segment has been unusually active through 2026 more broadly. Other yachts in the same size class from the same builder, including Ambrosia and Triumph, both changed hands in the same stretch of BOAT International's brokerage sales pages, and Yotters has already covered Benetti's own new-build Inari relisting at EUR 41m within months of her delivery. Read against that pattern, Mega Global III's repricing looks less like a one-off and more like where this specific bracket of the market actually sits right now, whatever a builder's original asking figures once implied. None of those other sales has published a transaction price either, which is itself part of the pattern: at this size and age bracket, the number that actually moves between two willing parties almost never becomes public, and a buyer or seller has to read liquidity and direction from repeated asking-price behaviour instead.

What should an owner take from a yacht that resold within a year of its last sale?

A fast resale with a falling asking price is not, on its own, evidence of a bad yacht; it is evidence that the previous owner's plans changed and that this bracket's buyers are transacting on realistic numbers, which is exactly the information a seller in the same size class needs before setting their own price.

For someone buying into this size and price bracket, the practical lesson is less about Seanna specifically and more about what a same-broker, same-hull repeat transaction reveals: real liquidity exists in the 60 to 65-metre Benetti-built segment even without a headline price, and a yard's original delivery-era pricing is not a reliable anchor thirteen years and one refit later. A 2021 refit clearly did not stop the asking figure from falling, which argues for pricing a resale against comparable current listings rather than against what a sister yacht asked at delivery. It also means a resale in this bracket is rarely a single negotiation between two strangers; it runs through a small pool of brokers who already know the boat, its systems history and its prior owners, which is worth knowing before assuming an open listing will move at the same pace.

For a prospective seller, the more direct read is on timing and broker relationships. Chiabra's firm having handled the yacht from both directions in successive sales suggests a working relationship with this specific buyer pool that a one-off transaction would not show, and it is the kind of repeat-client channel that tends to move a resale faster than an open listing, even if it does not by itself change what the boat is actually worth.