Market Outlook
Warranty Culture in Flores Yards: What Local Guarantees Mean
Flores yards operate two warranty systems at once: the traditional one, where a builder’s name travels with every hull and…
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From the yard
Notes on Building and Chartering in Labuan Bajo
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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Boat Construction
Building for the Day-Trip Trade: Hull Classes LBJ Yards Deliver
Komodo’s day-trip trade runs on four hull classes, and Labuan Bajo yards deliver all of them: open outboard speedboats of…
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Boat Construction
Owner Visits During an LBJ Build: Making the Trip Count
Four well-timed visits do more for build quality than forty phone calls: keel-laying to set the relationship and witness the…
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Yard Operations
Eco-Build Practices in Flores: Low-Impact Yards Near Komodo
Low-impact boatbuilding in Flores rests on five practices: fully documented legal timber, captured and removed hazardous waste, low-VOC coating systems…
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Boat Construction
Keel to Launch in Labuan Bajo: A Realistic Local Timeline
A realistic Labuan Bajo timeline for a 30–40 metre timber vessel runs 18 to 30 months from keel-laying to handover: two…
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Yard Operations
Barge Logistics: Moving Materials to Labuan Bajo Yards
Almost everything inside a Labuan Bajo build arrives by sea. Hardwood rides timber barges from Kalimantan via Surabaya or Makassar;…
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Boat Construction
Scheduling a Build Around the Flores Monsoon
Flores has two working seasons, and every honest build schedule is written around them. The dry months from April to…
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Flores Craft & Culture
Manggarai Hands, Bugis Lines: The Culture of Flores Boatbuilding
Labuan Bajo’s boatbuilding culture is a marriage of two lineages: the hull-shaping tradition carried east by Bugis and Konjo migrants…
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Yard Operations
Building Beside a National Park: Rules That Shape LBJ Yards
Every yard in Labuan Bajo operates in the shadow of a UNESCO-listed national park, and that changes how boats get…
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Yard Operations
Mapping Labuan Bajo’s Build Yards: Who Works Where
Labuan Bajo’s building capacity is not one shipyard but a string of yard sites along roughly twenty kilometres of coast:…
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