HAPPY ME is the last and most heavily specified of Benetti’s Classic Supreme 132 series, and the difference shows in the detail rather than the dimensions. Delivered in 2020 to an owner with a long memory for equipment lists, she carries a self-levelling pool table, a massage room with a therapist aboard, a six-person jacuzzi set into the foredeck, and a twelve-metre 850-horsepower Technohull as a chase boat. Most 40-metre yachts choose two of those. She has all four.
Stefano Righini drew the exterior, Francois Zuretti the interior, and the two arguments meet well. From outside she is a conventional tri-deck in white with a dark window band. Inside, the mood is monochrome and glossy: ebony-toned joinery, marble underfoot, and enormous printed murals – a jungle, a reef, a garden – used as full walls rather than pictures. It is more confident than the series usually is, and it stops the interior reading as a template.
The main deck runs as one continuous space. Teal sofas and a low-slung bar occupy the forward half; aft, a formal dining table in figured stone seats ten under a mirrored ceiling detail, with the sea on both sides. A stairwell in backlit stone connects the decks. Above, the sky lounge is the room the group will actually live in: a projection screen at one end, an onyx bar at the other, laser lighting and a karaoke rig for the nights that go long, and deep purple seating that absorbs an entire wet afternoon.
Accommodation is for ten across five cabins. The master sits forward on the main deck behind a floral silk headboard wall, with a chaise under the window and a bathroom in dark marble and gold. Two VIPs sit aft of amidships, port and starboard, and below them a twin and a convertible cabin. Every cabin has its own screen, its own bathroom and enough storage for a real week.
Outdoors is where the owner’s specification pays off. The aft main deck holds the pool table, gimballed so the balls stay put at anchor, with a curved sofa in bright cushions along one side. The upper deck carries a long teak dining table under a white awning and a second sun lounge forward of it. The sun deck is laid out with sun pads and a spiral stair. And on the bow, a jacuzzi for six sits between sun beds, which is the best seat aboard at the end of the day.
Seven crew run her, several of whom have worked for the owner for more than fifteen years – a detail that tends to matter more than any equipment list, because a crew that has not turned over knows where everything is and what usually goes wrong. She cruises at eleven knots, carries Starlink for anyone who has to stay reachable, and works out of Trogir on the Dalmatian coast year-round, which puts Split, Hvar, Vis and Korcula all inside comfortable day hops.
For a family or a group of friends who want a full-service week in Croatia with the toys to fill it, she is about as complete as 40 metres gets.
