Making her debut at this past September’s Cannes Yachting Festival, Iron Man represents Benetti’s first step into semi-custom megayachts conceived primarily around fuel consumption. As a Vivace 125 model, Iron Man is meant to burn less fuel than traditional semi-displacement megayachts at typical cruising speeds. She also uses carbon fiber in her superstructure, for a reported 40-percent weigh reduction versus typical all-fiberglass construction.
The Vivace 125 series is simultaneously focused on letting owners do exactly what attracts them to semi-custom construction in the first place. That is, arrange spaces and decor around the way they like to live. This video takes you all around Iron Man’s decks. You’ll see, too, how the owner, a lover of technology, and designer Alfred Karram, Jr. infused that passion into the decor. They incorporated blacks, greys, silvers, and whites, further using unexpected materials. Witness the molten glass used in the main stairway (above) leading down to the guest accommodations on Iron Man. Even Iron Man’s alfresco areas pick up the theme, through gray and white gelcoat.
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