Custom build in Bali
Most control
The boat is drawn around you. Ten to thirty months, and the specification is contractual.
Five ways to end up with a yacht
Build custom in Bali, buy pre-owned, commission an international yard, charter instead, or manage it yourself. Each is right for someone.
The honest comparison starts with time
A pre-owned boat puts you on the water this season. A custom build puts you on the water in the boat you actually wanted.
Everything else follows from that trade: customisation against speed to sail, depreciation against specification, and who carries the risk when something is wrong.
We build, so we are not neutral. What we can do is state each route accurately, including the ones that end with you not commissioning anything from us.
- Custom build, brief to handover
- 10 to 30 mo
- Pre-owned, if the survey is clean
- This season
- Charter, if ownership is not the point
- Zero
Five routes
What each one actually costs you
Not in money alone. In time, control and who carries the risk.
Buy pre-owned
Fastest to water
On the water this season, at someone else's compromises. Survey first, always.
International shipyard
Highest cost
Deep precision engineering, at European labour rates and a delivery voyage away.
Charter instead
No ownership
If you sail four weeks a year, ownership is the expensive way to do it. We will say so.
Before you decide
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Talk it through before you commit
Tell us how much you will actually use the boat, and where. If building is the wrong route for that, you will hear it in the first conversation.