Speed is the point. Overmarine built the Mangusta 130 around a pair of MTU 16V4000s and water-jet propulsion, and Veni Vidi Vici carries that hardware into a charter market where most forty-metre yachts move at walking pace. It changes what a week looks like. Saint-Tropez for lunch and Portofino for dinner stops being a compromise and becomes a decision made over breakfast.
Delivered in 2006 and comprehensively refitted in 2019, she pairs a Stefano Righini exterior with an interior by Maxine Tissenbaum. The profile is the one that made the Mangusta Open range recognisable at distance: long, low, unbroken, the superstructure pulled well aft. The refit is what makes her current. Floors were laid in pale lacquered timber, joinery redone in black lacquer and brushed silver, and the palette pulled towards graphite, chrome and white. It reads sharper than the 2006 original and it has aged well.
Her defining space is a single open-plan salon running almost the full beam. Forward, a dining table for ten sits beneath a glass roof panel that slides back entirely. With it open the room becomes a covered deck, sky directly overhead, the sea visible through curved side glass on both sides. Aft of the table a bar with stools faces a corner sofa and a lounge that opens onto the aft deck. Nothing separates eating, drinking and sitting, and on a yacht built for movement that is the right decision. Zero-speed stabilisers hold her steady once she stops.
Accommodation is five cabins for eleven guests. The full-beam master takes the widest part of the hull, the berth set against a padded headboard with a sofa at its foot, a vanity and writing desk to one side and a mirrored en suite in black stone and chrome. A VIP, two further doubles and a twin with a Pullman berth complete the layout, all finished in the same graphite and white scheme as the salon above.
On deck she gives up less than her narrow hull suggests. The foredeck carries a full-width sun pad ahead of a shaded seating group, cushioned in navy and white. Aft, the deck steps down to a bathing platform where the tender and toys live: a Williams 545 diesel jet, two Sea-Doo Spark jet skis, two Seabob F5s, a wakeboard, water skis, an inflatable paddleboard and snorkelling equipment. The platform is wide enough that most of it can be in the water at once.
Six crew run her, and she is configured for entertaining as much as cruising. The salon and aft deck work as one continuous space at anchor, which is what makes her a useful base during the Riviera event weeks rather than simply a yacht that is fast between them.
She rewards a particular kind of charter. Plan to sit in one bay for seven days and she is more yacht than the itinerary needs. Plan to see the coast between Monaco and the Balearics properly, in a single week, and she is one of very few at this size that can actually do it.
