1 Codecasa Yacht for Sale

Updated 7 October 2026 · By Hulls.io Editorial

About Codecasa

Codecasa is one of the oldest names in Italian boatbuilding. The family dates the business to 1825, when the master shipwright Giovanni Battista Codecasa began working in Viareggio, the Tuscan port that grew into one of the centres of Italian yacht building. In 2025 the yard celebrated 200 years of activity, a history it describes as always and only managed by the Codecasa family. There is no outside parent company: Cantieri Navali Codecasa is a family business, and that continuity is a large part of how it presents itself.

The 1825 date marks the start of the family's shipbuilding work rather than of the present company. The yard's own history records that a namesake, Giovanni Battista Codecasa — known as Tistino — set up the shipyard Antonio Codecasa e Figli in Viareggio's Darsena in 1902 together with his father Antonio, building mostly sailing vessels and fishing boats. Tistino led the yard through the Second World War, and by 1946 it had built more than 50 sailing ships alongside fishing boats and pontoons.

The family chain since then is well documented. Tistino's sons Ugo and Sandro ran the business through the 1960s. After Ugo's death in 1973, his son Fulvio Codecasa took over and steered the yard towards large luxury motor yachts while it continued to build working boats. Fulvio's daughter Fulvia joined in 1985, followed by Elena in 1994, their husbands Ennio Buonomo and Fabio Lofrese, and then Fulvia and Ennio's sons Matteo (2010) and Niccolò (2016), followed by their daughter Chiara in 2024.

Under Fulvio the yard expanded physically. Cantieri Navali Ugo Codecasa opened in 1977, the original Darsena site was converted into Codecasa Due in 1982, and Codecasa Tre followed in 1987. In 2011 production was partly moved to a facility at the Darsena dei Navicelli in Pisa, where larger hulls are built before being transferred to Viareggio for completion. The yard builds steel and light-alloy motor yachts, with its sites rated for yachts of up to 90 metres.

Motor-yacht building began in 1973 with yachts such as Entrepreneur and Casabella; the 27-metre Fair Play of 1975 is the one the yard credits with introducing the Codecasa style. The 62-metre Luisella of the early 1980s was the largest yacht it had built at that point, and its first intended for charter. Blue Velvet followed in 1994, and Charly Coppers (1996) opened a run of 48-to-51-metre yachts; and Boat International groups yachts of this size into the Codecasa 50 series, with steel hulls and aluminium superstructures. More recent series include the Codecasa 43 — the yard began building the seventh unit on spec in January 2026 — and the S, or Sports, range of aluminium fast yachts, which began in 2004 with the 35-metre Maria Carla and grew to the 50-metre Framura 3, capable of 28 knots. The Vintage series gives modern yachts mid-20th-century styling, starting with the 42-metre Magari of 2011, built for Paolo Bulgari, followed by Libra and the 50-metre Gazzella.

Codecasa's client list has included several well-known Italian names. Giorgio Armani owned Mariù (2003) and then the 65-metre Main, delivered in 2008, and Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have owned two yachts named Regina d'Italia, in 2006 and 2019. The yard is known for evolution rather than revolution: in its own words, a Codecasa yacht follows the lines of the previous ones, refining the details.

The yard is active today. In 2025 it delivered Pleiades, a 33.5-metre Codecasa Classic Yacht 110' designed by Luca Dini, and in April 2026 it delivered Legacy 4, a 57-metre Codecasa 57 with a steel hull and aluminium superstructure. A 58-metre yacht, hull C128, was moved from Pisa to Viareggio for completion in November 2025.