Benetti presented Project Clear Waves in Monaco on Thursday 24 September. It is a 70-metre yacht built around a glass dome of 400 square metres. The dome spans two decks, gives a 360-degree view and holds the wellness area, and its glazing carries solar cells that filter the light while feeding the hotel load. It is a project, not a sale. But it is the most complete statement of what the Livorno yard thinks a large yacht is for in 2026, and it landed on the second day of a show where Benetti already had two world premieres on the quay.
Seventy metres, seven cabins, one dome
The figures are simple. Clear Waves measures 70 metres, or 229 feet 8 inches, with a steel hull and an aluminium superstructure, and it accommodates 14 guests in seven cabins. Both the exterior and the interior are by Luca Dini Design and Architecture, the Florentine studio that also drew the 55-metre Loewe now moored a few berths away for Tankoa. The dome is the whole idea. Four hundred square metres of glass across two decks, described on Benetti’s project page as “sweeping glazed surfaces” that offer “uninterrupted 360-degree views”. The design references are listed with a straight face: the curve of a wave, the transparency of a jellyfish, the iridescence of a dragonfly’s wing. Benetti calls the result regenerative luxury.
What sits under the glass
The dome is not a lounge. It is a clinic with a view. Benetti has developed the space with The Longevity Suite, the Italian wellness brand with clinics in Milan and other cities, and the equipment list reads like one of its city centres: a Cryosuite for total-body cold therapy, dry flotation, near-infrared therapy, hydrogen and oxygen therapy, a Revital Chamber and hot and cold circuits. Luigi Caterino, the company’s chief executive, said in the Italian release that the aim is to move beyond the usual idea of wellness on board and turn the time spent on a yacht into a continuation of a programme of prevention, recovery and self-care. Sebastiano Vida, Benetti’s head of product, framed it against the yard’s own history.
“If Benetti’s Oasis Deck rethought the relationship between the yacht and the sea, with Clear Waves the yacht looks to the sky and to the human being.” Sebastiano Vida, head of product, Benetti, in the Italian release of 24 September.
Methanol, HVO and 250 square metres of solar
The engineering is as ambitious as the glass. Propulsion is a hybrid dual-fuel system compatible with HVO biofuel and with methanol, developed with Meccano Engineering of Trieste and validated by Lloyd’s Register, according to the release relayed by Pressmare on Thursday. More than 250 square metres of solar panels feed a 120-kilowatt-hour battery bank. No speed, range or tonnage has been published, which is normal for a project at this stage, and no client has been announced. The propulsion partner had its own news the same day: Meccano Engineering, founded in Trieste in 2000, presented a design brand called Medesign and a 110-metre concept named Infinity, with a mirrored superstructure drawn as the symbol of its name.
Benetti’s week in Monaco
Clear Waves arrives on top of a full stand. Benetti has two world premieres in the harbour, the fourth B.Now 67, a hybrid named Dagger on the Quai des Etats-Unis, and a B.Now 50, and it has opened a Benetti Lounge at the Yacht Club de Monaco designed by AMDL Circle and Michele De Lucchi, where the yard shows what it calls its Green Route, from a 2006 diesel-electric to the B.Neos project. We covered the opening day of the show, with Riva’s 54Metri and ISA’s 73-metre sale, and the Italian fleet over 50 metres. The Azimut Benetti group also has the Grande 44M on the Quai des Etats-Unis, with seven units sold before its debut. The show closes on Saturday 26 September.
Why a dome, and why now
Two things have changed in the large-yacht market in the last five years, and Clear Waves answers both. The first is glass. Owners who have seen the beach clubs and the sea terraces of the B.Now series now ask for the same openness above the waterline, and a 400-square-metre dome is the logical end of that request. The second is health. The wellness area on a 70-metre yacht used to be a massage room and a gym; the brief now includes cold therapy, infrared and hydrogen, because that is what the same clients have at home and in their clinics. Benetti has put the two together and drawn the yacht around them. Whether a client signs is a separate question. The drawings exist, the engineering has a classification society’s stamp, and the yard has built most of what it has drawn.
The Luxury.it perspective
The interesting word in Benetti’s release is not dome, or methanol, or longevity. It is regenerative. For twenty years the largest yachts have been sold as escape, and the vocabulary was about privacy and distance. Clear Waves is sold as recovery, and the vocabulary is about the body: light, air, water, cold, sleep. That is a shift in what the buyer is being told a yacht is for, and it matches what the hotels of the same price band are doing on land, where the spa has become the reason for the stay rather than an amenity beside it. A 70-metre yacht is a hotel with 14 beds. Benetti has understood that the owner who spends a week on it wants to come off it in better shape than they went on, and has drawn the boat accordingly.
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