Mangusta built its name on open boats that did forty knots and made a noise about it. FELICITA does eleven, in steel, with a swimming pool. She is the yard arguing against its own reputation, and she is very good at it.
The Oceano line is Overmarine’s displacement answer, and FELICITA is the 50-metre version, delivered in 2025. Steel hull, 499 gross tons, two MTUs, 4,000 nautical miles of range and a cruising speed of eleven knots. Nothing about her is fast. Everything about her is sized – the volume that a planing hull spends on engines and fuel, she spends on the parts you use.
The pool is the proof. Not a plunge tub set into a corner of the sundeck, but a full-length pool with a glass end, deep enough to swim in, positioned where the light is. Yachts of fifty metres almost never carry one, because a planing hull cannot afford the weight high up. A displacement hull can. That is the whole trade in a single feature.
What follows from it is a list that reads like a much larger yacht: a gym with real racked weights and cardio, not a bike in a corridor. A hammam, tiled and benched, with a sunken plunge and a picture window to the sea. An open-air cinema – a proper screen on the aft deck, cushions on the sole, the Mediterranean going dark behind it. A beach club that opens to the water. A grand piano in the salon.
Inside, the palette is cream and pale timber with teal used as punctuation rather than theme – curved banquettes, a circular sunken seating well in the main salon, ceilings that swirl rather than grid. It is unmistakably Italian and unmistakably 2025, and it will either read to you as confident or as a lot. There is no middle position on this interior, which is a compliment.
Five cabins sleep twelve. Eleven crew run her – more crew than cabins, which tells you what the service level is meant to be.
Overmarine has built at Viareggio since 1985 and spent nearly all of it making Mangustas – open, fast, unmistakable, and utterly uninterested in displacement. The Oceano line exists because the people who bought those boats in their forties wanted something else in their sixties, and did not want to leave the yard to get it. That lineage shows in FELICITA in a useful way: she has the proportions and the aggression of a fast boat without any of the machinery. She looks like she should plane. She simply declines to.
The steel hull is the other half of it. Steel is heavy, unfashionable at this length, and the reason she can carry a pool full of water on an upper deck without the naval architect objecting. Most 50-metre yachts are aluminium or GRP because the yard wanted the knots. Overmarine wanted the swimming pool, and built the hull that permits it.
She splits her year properly: the Mediterranean from April to September at 295,000 euros low season and 330,000 high, then the Caribbean from October at 295,000 US dollars.
FELICITA is a 2025 yacht with a 2025 feature list and none of the compromises that usually come with wanting all of it at fifty metres. The price of that is speed. Given what the eleven knots buys her, it is not much of a price.
