Ubud
Days one and two
The brief, and the workshops that shape interior joinery.
Five days to settle the design
A slower programme built around three design sessions, with the craft workshops and a day at sea that make the decisions easier.
You arrive with an idea and leave with drawings
Almost nobody can specify a boat in one meeting. Five days lets the brief change after you have seen timber, joinery and the water the vessel will work in.
The week opens in Ubud, away from the yards, because the first conversation is about how you want to use the vessel rather than what it is made of.
By the last morning you are approving a general arrangement, a material list and a build timeline.
- Formal design meetings
- 3 sessions
- Ubud, the coast, one yard
- 5 days
- Typical build once approved
- 18 to 24 mo
Five days, in order
Two nights inland, three on the coast. Transfers are handled.
The brief
Ubud. An informal evening about range, guests, crew and how you actually intend to use the boat. Ninety minutes, no drawings.
The craft
Workshops at Celuk and Mas. Silver filigree and woodcarving, the same hands that cut interior joinery. You learn what is possible before you ask for it.
First design session
The south coast. Hull form, general arrangement, propulsion and materials against preliminary sketches. Two to three hours.
A day on the water
The Badung Strait and the Nusa islands, then a working yard in the afternoon. Sea state and hull behaviour stop being abstract.
Approval
Final review, last adjustments, and formal sign off on the plans. You leave with a timeline and the next payment stage.
Roughly 18 to 24 months from approved plans to handover on a custom vessel.
What each design session covers
Three sittings, so nothing is decided in a hurry.
Session
On the table
What you decide
- Session
- Day one, evening
- On the table
- Use, range, guest and crew numbers
- What you decide
- Nothing yet. This one is listening.
- Session
- Day three, afternoon
- On the table
- Hull form, general arrangement, propulsion
- What you decide
- Layout in principle, and the material family
- Session
- Day five, morning
- On the table
- Finishes, systems, electronics, timeline
- What you decide
- Final plans, signed off
Between sessions you are looking at timber, joinery and open water, which is when most owners change their mind about one thing.
Three bases
Where the five days take you
Inland first, then the coast, then the water itself.
The south coast
Days three to five
Design sessions with the water your vessel will work in outside the window.
A working yard
Day four
Timber, lamination and hulls at frame stage.
Three, five or seven days
Pick by what you still need to decide.
Factor
3 days
5 days (our recommendation)
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
If you already know what you want to build and only need to judge the yard, three days is enough. If the hull will be hardwood, take seven.
About the design week
Keep reading
Block out a week
Send your dates and a sketch of the vessel, even a rough one. We will build the five days around the decisions you still have open.
- Your dates, or the month you are free
- Vessel type, length and intended use
- Anything you have already drawn or collected