Benetti unveils Oasis 36M at Cannes Yachting Festival 2026
Beneitti Oasis 36M Benetti has launched the Oasis 36M at Cannes Yachting Festival 2026.
The model extends the Oasis family and continues the partnership with British firm RWD, which led the exterior design. Bonetti/Kozerski Architecture created light-filled interior spaces.
The ocean-going Oasis 36M is the product of extensive fleet insights and direct feedback from owners and captains.
“Oasis 36M is the product of active listening,” states Sebastiano Vida, head of product at Benetti. “With dozens of vessels currently at sea, we enjoyed a unique vantage point from which to observe and learn how owners and their crews truly live the onboard experience today. Oasis 36M represents the direct synthesis of this collective intelligence: a project that extends well beyond merely adding length or technical details. Rather, it reinterprets naval architecture, spatial flow, and technological innovation to serve precisely the lifestyle, pace, and genuine priorities of today’s discerning owners.”
The unveiling of Oasis 36M was one of the most hotly anticipated debuts at Cannes Yachting Festival this year.
This next generation of the Oasis range centres around four key conceptual pillars:
1. Living Better: expanded spaces onboard
Benetti says the design of Oasis 36M reinterprets onboard volumes around the authentic lifestyle patterns of its guests. The sun deck, the upper deck terrace and the Oasis Deck are larger and designed to offer exceptional livability, comfort and versatile layout configurations.
Reconfigured crew pathways guarantee complete separation between guests and crew, enabling the latter to operate with maximum efficiency.
2. New bow bulb innovation
The integration of a newly developed bow bulb from Benetti’s R&D department is said to reduce hydrodynamic resistance by over 10 per cent at a cruising speed of ten knots, maintaining propulsion fuel consumption below 30 litres/hour per engine at cruise speed.
This expected hull efficiency allowed engineers to re-evaluate tank capacities based on real fleet data, which highlighted an increasing preference for extended stays at anchor. By strategically reducing fuel capacity without compromising the range required for practical cruising profiles, the saved volume has been reallocated to expand the black and grey water tanks to 5,000 litres. The result is extended autonomy at anchor, allowing guests to enjoy the most exclusive bays for consecutive days in complete self-sufficiency.
3. Quietly effortless acoustics and operational reliability
Mechanical and deck handling systems – such as opening garage doors, lifting mechanisms and the extension of the Oasis Deck fold-down wings – feature the complete replacement of old hydraulic systems with new-generation electric actuators. This choice claims to eliminate the risk of oil leaks, simplifies maintenance for the captain, and, translates into the absence of mechanical noise and vibration for guests.
Tailor-made propulsion: The new project maintains the maximum reliability of the traditional shaft-line propulsion system as a starting point for long voyages. However, faithful to Benetti’s commitment to smart sustainability based on real, concrete and reliable solutions, the Oasis 36M can be equipped with a hybrid propulsion system based on Siemens Siship EcoProp. This plug-in technology aims to significantly reduce emissions, fuel consumption and noise while guaranteeing maximum operational safety.
4. Intelligent by design: engineering that safeguards the owner’s experience
Beyond Compliance: Demonstrating environmental stewardship beyond regulatory obligations, Benetti equips the Oasis 36M with SCR (selective catalytic reduction) emission-reduction systems. Benetti highlights that this choice reflects a brand-wide commitment across all models, despite SCRs not being mandated by international maritime regulations for vessels under 500 GT.
On the data management front, Benetti introduces the D.gree platform, developed in partnership with SailADV. Combining digital twin technology and structural modelling with machine learning algorithms, the system monitors the hull’s physical and fluid-dynamic parameters in real time. This advanced oversight enables the early detection of anomalies and predicts maintenance requirements for engines and generators, substantially mitigating downtime risk and ensuring uninterrupted operational readiness.
