Private luxury phinisi · Komodo · Raja AmpatFenides

Fenides was designed and engineered by Michael Schnadhorst and built by Kammisi (Bonto) with the Konjo boatbuilders of Ara; her operator says the build took nearly three years, and she first sailed in 2019. She is a gaff-rigged schooner on a displacement hull of ironwood and teak, 41 metres overall and 31 metres on deck, with a 7.7-metre beam and a two-metre draught. A 405 hp Yanmar gives her nine knots at cruising speed.

Her five en-suite cabins are a 20 m² master with a double bed and a day bed and two 12 m² twins on the lower deck, and two 12 m² doubles on the upper deck. She sleeps ten, with a stated maximum of eleven, and her 2023 brochure lists a crew of 13. She is run as a dive liveaboard, with a Bauer compressor and nitrox, two 50 hp RIB tenders with console steering and a climate-controlled camera room with six desks. Trips offer three day dives daily, plus an optional night dive from day two to day eight.

Lunch is served à la carte at the front-deck table, and there are two shaded sundecks, a salon and a bar with Bose sound; kayaks, paddleboards and a wakeboard come out between dives, and massage is offered. Her 2023–24 calendar put her in Raja Ampat from November to February, around Halmahera at the turn of the year, in Komodo from late March to early October and in the Banda Sea from Ambon in October. She is sold as a full charter or cabin by cabin, and her operator also runs private surf charters to Sumbawa, Sumba and Halmahera.