Private phinisi charter · Komodo · Raja AmpatMutiara Laut

That choice is the reason to start with her. A private charter buys the itinerary — where you anchor, when you dive, how long you stay. A shared voyage buys the same boat, the same crew and the same waters at roughly a third of the cost per head, on a route someone else has set. Most people asking about a phinisi for the first time do not know both exist.

She carries fourteen guests across seven cabins and sails bespoke routes through Komodo, the Banda Sea and Raja Ampat. Sulawesi craftsmanship, contemporary comfort — the phrase is used about every phinisi, but on a 46-metre boat it means a hull that was shaped by hand and a saloon that was not.

A week aboard tends to settle into a rhythm rather than a schedule: a dawn dive before the light hardens, a long lunch at anchor, an afternoon walk on an island with no one else on it, and dinner on deck. On a private charter the crew and the boat are yours alone, and that is what changes the week.