A $19 million yacht is docked in Anthony DiLorenzo’s slip at a Palm Beach, Fla., marina, and it appears nowhere on the Republican congressional candidate’s federal financial disclosure. Filling the fuel tank on the 115-foot Serenity Now would cost about $30,000.
Serenity Now is listed for sale at $18,995,000. DiLorenzo’s disclosure, filed in May, puts the combined value of all assets he reported owning at between $1.8 million and $6.75 million. The yacht’s asking price alone is nearly three times the top of that range.
DiLorenzo, a Portsmouth car dealer endorsed by President Donald Trump, faces Democrat Stefany Shaheen on Nov. 3 for the open 1st Congressional District seat. A recent poll shows a slim lead, within the poll’s margin of error, for Shaheen. New Hampshire Democrats have argued for weeks that his disclosure hides millions from voters. His campaign has said he earned his money himself and that his team worked with regulators on the disclosure rules.
Why isn’t the yacht on the disclosure?
House rules say candidates don’t have to list personal property that isn’t held mainly for investment, the same exemption that covers artwork hanging in a candidate’s home. DiLorenzo’s filing doesn’t mention a boat.
Serenity Now, though, has been on the market since March. It went up for sale at $19,995,000, but the asking price has since been cut by $1 million.
How is DiLorenzo tied to the yacht?
Serenity Now flies the flag of the Marshall Islands, a Pacific nation whose ship registry requires foreign owners to hold title through a company. An owner with a yacht this size is required to pay the Marshall Islands $750 a year in tonnage tax.
Boat International’s yacht directory places Serenity Now at Town of Palm Beach Marina. On Oct. 7, the marina’s manifest listed Anthony DiLorenzo by name for the slip where the yacht was docked.
The boat spends summers up north. Dated photos on a vessel-tracking site show Serenity Now passing through the Cape Cod Canal in Massachusetts in 2024, 2025 and again this September.
Why the name Serenity Now?
The name comes from the TV show “Seinfeld.” In a 1997 episode, George Costanza’s father, Frank, is told by an instructional tape to say “serenity now” every time he gets angry, to keep his blood pressure down.
Serenity Now is one of 14 Ocean Alexander 35R yachts ever built, with five cabins for 10 guests and a crew of five. A boating magazine’s review of the model describes a beach club with a sauna and an exercise room, as well as a Jacuzzi on the top deck.
The listing calls the yacht “the pinnacle of modern luxury yachting.” The builder’s US sales arm pitches the model as “the epitome of pampered privacy.”
The builder lists the fuel tank capacity at 5,151 gallons. At the $5.60-per-gallon diesel price posted by Palm Harbor Marina in West Palm Beach on Oct. 2, filling the yacht’s 5,151-gallon tank would cost $28,845.60 before taxes, or about $30,865 after Florida’s 7% sales tax.
