From the yard
What we learn on the slipway and on the water: build costs, permits, timber, and how a charter season actually runs.
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Komodo's charter year is really two seasons: dry southeast trade winds from roughly May to September, and a wetter, swell-prone northwest monsoon around December to February. Boat builders in Labuan Bajo design around that split — fuller hulls, higher freeboard,…
Market Outlook
The 2027 outlook for Labuan Bajo building is demand-heavy and capacity-bound: park visitation keeps climbing, the day fleet is renewing…
Market Outlook
A Labuan Bajo build price is two economies stitched together: local labour and timber — the hull economy, where this…
Boat Construction
A catamaran-building niche is taking real shape in Labuan Bajo: day-charter platforms of 12–18 metres and small cruising cats to…
Boat Construction
Every vessel finished in Labuan Bajo saves at least one delivery passage — and usually the most expensive one, the…
Flores Craft & Culture
A Flores launch is a two-day event wrapped around one tide. The evening before brings the blessing: prayers led by…
Materials & Timber
Steel earns its place in Labuan Bajo for three vessel types: expedition and long-range hulls where collision and grounding tolerance…
Market Outlook
The honest trade-off: Bulukumba and the Sulawesi yards offer deeper hull-building capacity and headline prices typically 10–20 percent lower; Labuan…
Flores Craft & Culture
Flores boatbuilding trains its people the way it always has: by hand, in public, over years. The path runs from…
Market Outlook
A Labuan Bajo build enters Komodo service through a five-stage pipeline: flag and survey documentation at launch, park operating permits,…
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