The design studio
Denpasar
Naval architecture, drawings, and the limits of the site.
Three days to see whether this is real
A short working visit to Denpasar, Benoa and Serangan. You walk the berths, meet the people who would run your build, and leave with a written scope.
A working visit, not a tour
Three days is enough to judge a yard and settle a specification. It is not enough to reach Sulawesi, so the hull yards wait for the seven day programme.
You meet the naval architect, the project manager who would hold your file, and the yard foreman. Every meeting happens where the work happens.
There is no showroom. You see whatever is genuinely on the hard that week, including boats belonging to other owners where they agree to it.
- Denpasar, Benoa and Serangan
- 3 days
- Guests on one visit
- Up to 4
- We host the visit itself
- No charge
Three days, in order
Arrival and departure at Ngurah Rai. Transfers between sites are handled.
The studio brief
Denpasar. You bring how you want to use the boat, we bring drawings, timber samples and honest limits. Two hours, then dinner.
The yards
Benoa fit out berths in the morning, the Serangan small craft yards after lunch. Boats in build, systems bays and the travel lift.
Scope and numbers
A working session on specification, then an indicative range in writing. You fly home with a document rather than an impression.
Tuesday to Thursday works best. A yard is quiet on Sundays, and a quiet yard tells you nothing.
Fixed points
What the three days cover
Every visit includes these three, whatever else the week allows.
The fit out berth
Benoa
Where systems go in and sea trials start.
Boats in build
Serangan
Hulls at stages you cannot judge from photographs.
Three, five or seven days
Pick by what you still need to decide.
Factor
3 days (our recommendation)
5 days
7 days
- 3 days
- Judging the yard and getting a number
- 5 days
- Settling the design itself
- 7 days
- Seeing where the hull is actually built
- 3 days
- Denpasar, Benoa, Serangan
- 5 days
- Ubud, the south coast, one working yard
- 7 days
- Bali and South Sulawesi
- 3 days
- One session
- 5 days
- Three sessions
- 7 days
- Two sessions, after the yards
- 3 days
- An indicative range in writing
- 5 days
- An approved general arrangement
- 7 days
- Specification and contract structure
- 3 days
- None
- 5 days
- None
- 7 days
- Denpasar to Makassar and back
Best for
Where you go
Design time
You leave with
Flights inside Indonesia
Owners commissioning a hardwood phinisi should take the seven day programme. The hull is built in Sulawesi, and photographs of joinery are no substitute for standing next to it.
Before you book the flights
Keep reading
Tell us when you are in Bali
Send your dates and roughly what you are thinking of building. We will come back with a three day plan and the names of the people you would meet.
- Your dates, or the month you are free
- Vessel type and rough length
- Anyone travelling with you, surveyor or architect