Codecasa is an Italian luxury super yacht building firm, founded in

Viareggio Viareggio () is a city and ''comune'' in northern Tuscany, Italy, on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. With a population of over 62,000, it is the second largest city within the province of Lucca, after Lucca. It is known as a seaside resort as ...

by Giovanni Battista Codecasa in 1825.

History

The shipyard Codecasa was created by Giovanni Battista Codecasa in 1825. Today, under the direction of the sixth generation Codecasa, the company works with a custom policy, which aims to build the yacht according to the owner's needs. In January 2020 the Shipyards will launch a new project: the construction of jets 2020. It will be a 70-meter yacht, with a unique design of its kind because it borrows the aviation lines with the result of looking like an airplane resting on the sea. This project should be completed within the year and is destined to become the new flagship of the Codecasa Shipyards. Even today the company, despite having many employees and several factories, is led at its top by members of the Codecasa family, maintaining a family business identity exactly as it was when it all started. For 40 years now at the helm of the company there has been Fulvio Codecasa (son of Ugo Codecasa), always present in the company, flanked by his daughters Fulvia and Elena Codecasa, and by their respective husbands Ennio Buonomo and Fabio Lofrese. In 2010, Codecasa launched the superyacht Lady Lau.

Activities

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The company possesses a

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which allows them to build steel/aluminium or entirely aluminium vessels between in length. The shipyard is situated in one of the port of Viareggio's oldest docks, covering an area in excess of 6500 square meters. The shipyard is also equipped with repairing and refitting of motor and sailing yachts. The company is responsible for many luxury yachts around the

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. Former clients include billionaires such as

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who bought his yacht the '' Sokar'', originally built in 1990 as the Jonikal, in the spring of 1997.Superyacht Times
/ref> It has a length of making it the 89th largest yacht in the world in 2007. Codecasa Yachts was awarded “Best Design” in the large motor yacht category by Yachts Magazine for their 164-foot range of yachts.

Famous yachts

*The ''Invader'', 163.7-foot, owned by media mogul Jim Gabbert *The ''Apogee'', 205-foot, owned by

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*The ''Main'', 213-foot, owned by

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Giorgio Armani sbarca in Sardegna con il megayacht Main
''Newsliguria.com'', 12 August 2015

References

External links

{{Commons category, Cantieri Navali Codecasa
Official siteList of Codecasa yachts and pictures
Manufacturing companies established in 1825 Shipbuilding companies of Italy Yacht building companies Italian boat builders Italian companies established in 1825 Italian brands Companies based in Tuscany Viareggio

History

Activities

Famous yachts

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