Codecasa 57 (Legacy 4)

The first Codecasa 57

Hull F81 was laid down at the Ugo Codecasa yard in Viareggio in December 2023 and launched on 23 February 2026, dressed overall with signal flags in a private ceremony typical of an Italian yard's send-off, with the sailing yachts of the neighbouring marina visible behind her at the quay. She is classed by Lloyd's Register to 100 A1, SSC YACHT MONO G6, LMC and UMS notation, and additionally certified to the Red Ensign Group Yacht Code Part A, giving her the paperwork for worldwide charter and private operation rather than a coastal-only class.

The yard's own account and Boat International both describe her as delivered to her owner following the launch, with Megayacht News reporting the owner was scheduled to begin cruising within weeks, pointing to a spring and summer 2026 season in home waters. That is the detail that matters most for a page like this one: Legacy 4 is not a rendering or a signed contract, she is a hull that left the yard, was classed, and went to sea under her owner's flag within the same year she launched.

Tommaso Spadolini's design, and a naval architect who started here

Codecasa gave both the exterior lines and the interior of the 57 to Tommaso Spadolini, continuing a partnership the yard has leaned on across several recent hulls rather than commissioning a new name for the flagship. The result is a conservative, three-deck displacement profile with a raked bow and a boxy, glazed wheelhouse, styling that reads as a modern refinement of Codecasa's familiar full-displacement look rather than a departure from it.

Naval architecture came from Pierluigi Ausonio's P.L.A.N.A. Design, a studio with an unusually direct link to this yard: Ausonio's first ever yacht commission, the 37 metre fast-displacement Aquajoy in 1992, was a Codecasa design, and he has gone on to work for Azimut-Benetti, Baglietto, Sanlorenzo and Perini Navi in the decades since. Bringing him back for the 57 metre flagship reads less like a hire and more like a studio the yard has trusted with its biggest projects for over thirty years.

A 200 year old family yard's newest flagship: no hybrid drivetrain to justify, just steel, aluminium and 5,000 miles of range.

Steel hull, aluminium superstructure, and the numbers that matter

The hull is steel and the superstructure aluminium, the combination Codecasa uses across its range to keep a large full-displacement yacht's weight down without giving up the strength a steel hull offers for long, hard ocean miles. Beam is 10.2 metres on the 56.8 metre length, with a draft of around 3 metres, and the yard reports a gross tonnage close to 900. Two Caterpillar 3512E diesels, each rated 1,771 kW (2,375 hp) at 1,800 rpm, give a maximum speed of 17 knots at light displacement.

The figure that stands out is range: 5,000 nautical miles at a 12 knot cruise, genuinely ocean-crossing capability from a conventional twin-shaft diesel installation rather than a hybrid system. That is a deliberate trade. Legacy 4 carries no fuel cell, no battery bank and no first-of-kind propulsion to prove out at sea, which means an owner buys a powertrain that any competent yard engineer already knows how to service, in exchange for giving up the efficiency or silent-running claims a hybrid flagship would make.

Life aboard: an owner, five cabins, and a crew of twelve

The accommodation splits cleanly into three zones, an owner's suite, five further guest cabins for a maximum of 12 guests, and crew quarters built around a captain's cabin plus six twin berths for 12 crew, a generous ratio for a yacht this size that points to a genuinely private-use brief rather than a charter-first design. An elevator connects all decks, unusual detail-level comfort on a 57 metre yacht and one Codecasa's own material calls out specifically.

Interior finishing leans traditional rather than minimalist: mahogany cabinetry, marble and stone across the floors, and velvet and silk upholstery, all supplied through Spadolini's studio. Coverage of the interior from Yacht Kings quotes the studio's own framing of the brief, describing an approach that deliberately challenges standard minimalist logic in favour of what it calls absolute residential comfort. That is a look aimed squarely at an owner who wants a yacht that reads as built, not printed, continuing the same wood-and-stone language Codecasa's interiors have carried for decades rather than chasing the pared-back white-oak look common on newer semi-custom flagships from bigger yards.

An Italian launch, kept small on purpose

Codecasa's own account times the launch precisely, 10.30 am on Monday 23 February 2026, and describes it as a private ceremony rather than an open public event, at the Ugo Codecasa facility in Viareggio. The yard dressed her overall, running a line of international signal flags bow to stern and up the mast, the traditional Italian send-off for a new hull, with the masts of moored sailing yachts from the neighbouring marina visible behind her in the harbour.

That choice, a private ceremony over a marketed public launch, fits a yard that still measures its output in single hulls a year rather than a production line marking a model milestone. It is a small, telling detail: two centuries after Giovanni Battista Codecasa first began repairing boats on this same stretch of Viareggio coastline, the family yard still treats a new hull's first contact with the water as a private family and client occasion, not a press event built for cameras.

Where Legacy 4 sits in Codecasa's range

Legacy 4 did not appear in isolation. Codecasa delivered the 43 metre Gioia and the smaller, quicker 24 metre Vero in 2024, and launched Pleiades, the first hull of a new Classic 110 line at roughly 34 metres, in 2025. Seen together, those deliveries show a yard working the full width of its stated 30 to 70 metre range in a two-year window, not one that only builds occasional flagships between long gaps.

At 56.8 metres, Legacy 4 is the largest yacht Codecasa has delivered in this recent run and the first of what the yard is positioning as a new series rather than a one-off commission. Whether that series repeats at the pace of the smaller Gioia and Vero hulls is not yet provable from one delivered boat, and a prospective buyer comparing Legacy 4 to a bigger series builder's 57 metre platform should weigh that against Codecasa's genuine, if modest, production cadence.

What is not yet known

Every source available for this page is delivery press, the yard's own release, or specification reporting from the yachting trade titles. Legacy 4 delivered in early 2026, and no named owner, captain or crew account of how she handles or lives at sea had been published as this page was researched. That is ordinary for a yacht this new rather than a mark against her, but it means the claims above rest on the builder's and the trade press's figures, not yet on independent experience.

Codecasa does not publish new-build prices for the 57, in keeping with the yard's usual practice of quoting privately rather than listing an asking figure, and no confirmed contract value for Legacy 4 was found in this research. Running costs, warranty terms and any resale activity are similarly not yet public for a yacht barely out of her builder's yard.

Design

Who it is for: An owner who wants a full-custom Italian-built flagship without a first-of-kind system to nurse, and who values a small yard's personal attention over a big series builder's scale.