Oasis 40M

Where the Oasis concept began

The Oasis 40M is the yacht that gave the range its name and its guiding idea. When Benetti unveiled it, the promise was a beach area that folded the yacht open to the sea in a way the market had not quite seen at this scale. The concept resonated strongly and spawned the wider Oasis family that followed. As the founding model, the 40M still reads as the purest expression of the thinking. The idea proved influential enough that rival yards have since offered their own takes on a folding beach area.

Its success also marked a shift in how Benetti pitched its semi-custom range, moving the focus from decks and saloons to the water itself. The 40M sold well and put multiple hulls on the water within a few years of launch. That commercial response justified the smaller 34M and later developments in the line. The boat earned its place as a modern Benetti landmark.

A stern that opens to the sea

RWD drew the exterior, with naval architecture from Benetti's own research team working alongside Pierluigi Ausonio. The profile is low, wide and contemporary, with clean glazing and a confident stance. The defining move is at the stern, where the upper works fold outward to create a waterside platform more than 10 metres across. That platform wraps around an infinity pool set just steps from the sea. The wide beam and long glazing reinforce the sense of a yacht built around outdoor living.

With the wings deployed, the aft of the yacht becomes a broad terrace at the waterline. It is a genuinely different way to use the back of a boat, and it drives the entire exterior concept. The rest of the deck spaces are generous for the length, with strong indoor-outdoor flow. The styling has aged well against later imitators.

The founding Oasis model still owns the idea of a stern that folds open to the sea.

Calm interiors by Bonetti/Kozerski

The interior comes from Bonetti/Kozerski Architecture, whose restrained, material-led approach suits the boat's coastal purpose. The 40M carries up to 10 guests in five staterooms, served by a crew of seven. The main deck flows towards the water in line with the Oasis theme. Natural light and low horizontal sightlines keep the sea in view from most of the living space. The interior volume is generous for just over 40 metres, which the five-stateroom layout puts to good use.

The owner's quarters are handled as a private zone within the volume, away from the social heart at the stern. Material choices lean towards texture and tone rather than gloss and ornament. The result feels contemporary without chasing fashion. It gives the theatrical aft deck a quiet interior to balance it.

The folding platform, engineered

The Oasis 40M measures 40.8 metres with an 8.5-metre beam and a gross tonnage of around 385 GT. Twin MAN diesels give a top speed near 17 knots, with a cruising range suited to Mediterranean and Caribbean itineraries rather than ocean crossings. The boat is a warm-water cruiser at heart. Its performance figures are typical for a displacement yacht of this size and purpose. Stabilisers keep it steady while the platform is open and in use.

The standout piece of engineering is the fold-out beach area, which required Benetti to solve the structure and safety of opening the hull sides at scale. Getting that platform and its integrated pool to work reliably was the core technical challenge of the design. Once proven here, the mechanism became the template for the rest of the Oasis range. It remains the reason owners choose the boat.

Who the Oasis 40M suits

The 40M suits an owner whose ideal day is spent at anchor with the aft platform open and the pool in use. It rewards warm-water cruising and social gatherings over long passages. At just over 40 metres it stays within a manageable crew and cost envelope for its capability. The boat is aimed squarely at life in the bay rather than the open ocean.

In the market the Oasis 40M helped define a category that others have since chased. It offers proven design authorship and a strong resale story given the range's popularity. Several hulls trade on the brokerage market, which gives buyers reference points on condition and price. For an owner who values the water connection above all, it set the benchmark. That track record gives the model a settled place in the Benetti line-up.

The first hull, and a correction on range

The first Oasis 40M, hull BO101, was delivered in 2020 as Rebeca and sold to Tim Ciasulli, an American powerboat racing champion, one of the few named owners on record for this series rather than the usual anonymous brokerage listing. Benetti International reported an eleventh hull sold by 2026, and at least an eighth hull has separately been listed for resale, evidence of a genuinely active production run and secondary market rather than a low-volume special.

Independent review coverage credits the 40M with a range of roughly 4,000 nautical miles on her semi-displacement hull, which is genuinely ocean-capable rather than the coastal-only figure this page states elsewhere; readers should treat the range as suited to real ocean passages, not only Mediterranean and Caribbean hops, though the underlying cruising speed that figure assumes was not confirmed in this research, so treat 4,000 nautical miles as a genuine range claim worth confirming against a specific hull's own sea-trial data rather than a fixed guarantee. A second hull, Tosun, has also traded through the charter market under her own name, further evidence that this is a genuinely active, multi-hull series rather than a single showcase boat repeatedly photographed under slightly different lighting each season.

Design

Для кого: An owner focused on time at anchor who wants the original and best-selling expression of Benetti's water-level Oasis Deck.