ABILITY — 42m Codecasa 41S for Sale in Athens, Greece

ABILITY is a 42-metre Codecasa, built in 2007 and refitted in 2023, based in Athens year-round. She sleeps eleven across five cabins — four doubles and a twin — with a crew of eight.

Eight crew for eleven guests is close to one-to-one, and it is the most consequential number on this page. At 42 metres the difference between six crew and eight is not the yacht, it is the service: the pace at which meals arrive, whether the tender is always manned, whether the boat is reset while you are ashore.

Codecasa is a Viareggio yard with a long line of steel and aluminium displacement yachts behind it, and ABILITY reflects that lineage: black hull and superstructure against a bright white interior of gloss wood panelling and teak, a contrast that is unusual on a Greek charter fleet and photographs unusually well.

The main salon is arranged with U-shaped seating on both sides — two distinct social areas rather than one open room, which matters when eleven guests want to split into groups without anyone retreating to a cabin. Outside: a flybridge, aft main deck and bow area, each with sun pads, seating and dining, plus a swim platform and beach club at water level.

Her performance sets her apart. She is a fast planing yacht — an aluminium hull driven by three 2,400 hp MTU engines through waterjets — and cruises at 24.5 knots, with close to 29 available. For a 42-metre yacht that is genuinely quick: most boats her size cruise at half that. The reserve is not a party trick. It turns a weather window into a reachable one, brings a distant island back within an afternoon, and lets a late-joining guest be collected without reshaping the week — at a fuel cost drawn from the APA, so it is speed held for when it matters rather than the everyday pace. Her 1.4-metre draft is unusually shallow for the length, which opens the shelved bays on the leeward side of the Cyclades that deeper boats have to stand off from.