Codecasa 43 (Gioia)

Hull C124: Codecasa's Sixth 43 Metre

Codecasa laid down hull C124 at its Viareggio yard in April 2022 without a signed buyer, a common approach for a series that already had five completed sisterships to show a prospective owner, among them Boji, delivered in 2022. Launched on 27 July 2024 in a ceremony attended by Codecasa's own craftspeople and the head of Italian marine trade body Confindustria Nautica, the yacht left the yard under her own name in October 2024 and was reported anchored off Saint Tropez within days, the start of what Boat International called her maiden Mediterranean voyage.

She carries Lloyd's Register classification to the same standard as the rest of Codecasa's current range, and her construction, a high-tensile AH36 steel hull with a 5083-grade aluminium superstructure, is standard practice for the yard rather than anything unique to this hull. At just under 500 gross tons on a 43 metre length, a 9 metre beam and a 2.6 metre draught, Gioia sits at the smaller end of what Codecasa builds, a size the yard has now delivered six times under the same series name, evidence of a genuine repeat model rather than a one-off commission dressed up as a series.

A Chicago Car Dealer's Fourth Yacht, and His First Custom Build

Loquercio told Boat International's Kate Lardy, in a named owner interview published in the magazine's May 2025 US edition, that he began negotiating with Benetti before switching to Codecasa at the last minute, a decision he credits to the attention a small custom yard gives a client that a larger series builder cannot match. He named a husband-and-wife consultancy, Bowline Marine, as the on-site team that helped him navigate building a boat in Italy from Chicago, and credited his wife Veronica, whom he describes as a designer with a discerning eye, with shaping much of the interior brief that Cor D. Rover's studio then executed.

The interview is unusually candid for a yacht barely out of build: Loquercio admits the family missed a full summer season to delivery delays, calling it frustrating, and lays out a real cruising itinerary for the yacht rather than marketing language, the South of France, the Monaco Grand Prix, two weeks in Corsica, a full July in Italy and September in Spain. That kind of on-record, named account, rather than a press release quote, is exactly the gap Legacy 4's page on this site flags as missing for Codecasa's newer flagship, and it gives Gioia's page a genuine owner-reports block that Legacy 4 could not yet carry.

A named Chicago owner who chose Codecasa over Benetti at the last minute, and whose custom 43 metre flagship was back on the brokerage market for EUR 33.5 million eighteen months after he took delivery.

Cor D. Rover's Interior, Codecasa's Own Naval Architecture

Four independent sources, Boat International's delivery report, YachtBuyer's specification page, Megayacht News's launch coverage and the yard's own data sheet, agree on the same interior credit, Cor D. Rover. One later SuperyachtTimes brokerage listing names a different firm, Zepeda Design, and separately credits naval architecture to Pierluigi Ausonio's P.L.A.N.A. studio, the same architect who worked on Codecasa's larger 57 metre flagship Legacy 4. Codecasa's own hull data sheet states plainly that naval architecture on C124 was designed in-house to Lloyd's Class specifications, which this page follows given the weight of agreement elsewhere and the plausible explanation that a single outlet's boilerplate crossed two Codecasa hulls built around the same time.

What is not in dispute is the look: a vertical bow, a gunmetal grey hull with a white superstructure, and interiors that use a neutral palette of greys, ecrus and light wood rather than the mahogany and stone language Codecasa used on Legacy 4's more traditional flagship interior. Large windows on both decks were a specific brief item, according to the yard, intended to flood the two saloons with natural light, and SuperyachtTimes's own onboard photography from March 2025 shows a main deck saloon built around a glossy dark coffee table and a formal dining table rather than an open-plan layout.

Twin Caterpillars, a Sea-Trial-Verified Range

The engine and range figures agree across five sources: Codecasa's own data sheet, Boat International, Megayacht News, SuperyachtTimes and YachtBuyer, apart from one YachtBuyer summary that states a 5,000 nautical mile range, a figure this page treats as an error given the other four sources' unanimous 4,000 nautical miles and given that 5,000 nautical miles is the figure independently published for Codecasa's larger 57 metre Legacy 4, not the 43. Fuel capacity is published as 65,000 litres on the builder's own data sheet, against 70,000 litres on one aggregator site; this page follows the builder's figure as the more authoritative of the two and flags the discrepancy rather than picking silently.

Codecasa's data sheet lists the supporting systems in full: CMC Marine Stabilis Electra SE160 stabilisers, two Caterpillar C4.4 Acert generators at 99 kW each plus a 65 kW emergency generator, and twin five-blade Detra propellers in S class. What sets Gioia apart from most new Codecasa coverage is that Megayacht News specifically describes her cruising speed and range as sea-trial results rather than yard specification, meaning an independent voice, not just the builder, put a number to her performance before she went to her owner.

Ten Guests as Built, Twelve on Charter Paper

Codecasa's own data sheet, SuperyachtTimes's March 2025 onboard piece and Boat International's delivery report all state the same base layout, an owner's suite on the forward main deck plus four guest cabins below, for 10 guests, while a later SuperyachtTimes brokerage listing and a Boat International charter listing both quote 12 guests. The difference is not a contradiction once the cabin breakdown is read closely: two of the four guest cabins are twins built with an extra pullman bunk, the standard way a charter yacht adds sleeping capacity beyond her as-delivered configuration without adding cabins.

Crew accommodation is more consistent across sources, a captain's cabin plus four twin cabins for 9 crew total, a ratio that comfortably supports full-time private use or charter operation on a yacht this size. An elevator is not mentioned in any source reviewed for this page, unlike the larger Legacy 4, which the yard specifically calls out as carrying one, a reasonable difference given Gioia's smaller three-deck-plus-sundeck configuration against Legacy 4's larger four-deck layout.

On the Brokerage Market Eighteen Months After Delivery

Boat International and SuperyachtTimes both carried the new-to-market listing in February 2026 at the same EUR 33,500,000 asking price, equivalent to roughly USD 38,800,000 at the time, and both list Gioia's charter rate separately at USD 235,000 to 285,000 per week depending on season. Neither outlet, nor the yard, discloses Gioia's original new-build contract price or the reason she returned to market so soon after a custom commission that took her named owner more than two years and, by his own account, involved close personal input from his wife into the interior brief. That gap, an owner who spoke warmly and specifically about building this exact yacht in April 2025 and a brokerage listing for the same hull ten months later, is worth noting rather than glossing over.

What this page could not find: any published new-build price for hull C124, any confirmed reason for the resale, a full magazine sea trial with fuel-burn tables rather than the single confirmed cruising figure Megayacht News reported, and any independent owner or crew account beyond Loquercio's own Boat International interview. Her sistership Boji offers one useful comparable, a same-series 43 metre hull two years older that has stayed with its original owner and never come to market, suggesting Gioia's quick return to sale is the exception in this series rather than the rule.

Who it is for: A buyer who wants a full-custom Italian yard's more accessible entry point, a proven repeat 43 metre series rather than a first-of-type hull, and who is comfortable buying a lightly used, recently commissioned custom yacht instead of waiting through a new build.