Boat of the Week: This Sleek 131-Foot Superyacht Has a Wheelhouse That’s Straight Out of a Sci-Fi Flick
Michael Verdon
The owner of
Rebeca, Benetti’s first 131-foot Oasis 40M, is a rare breed of waterman. Tim Ciasulli is both boater
and yachtsman. Typically, the two only cross paths at the dock, the boater wind-blown and sunburned from bouncing around the ocean, and the yachtie looking like he just emerged from a spa. They are two very different worlds that Ciasulli navigates quite easily.
Ciasulli, who owns Planet Honda and several other businesses in New Hampshire, grew up on Barnegat Bay in New Jersey, developing the water gene at a young age. “I was always attracted to speed on the water,” he says. “When I was in sixth grade, my parents bought me a 13-foot Boston Whaler, which was marketed as unsinkable.” He sank two—by running them so hard and fast in big waves on the lake the transoms fell off. “My parents refused to buy a third,” he says.