Liveaboards built for the water they will work
A dive liveaboard is a business wrapped in a hull. It has to earn its keep in Komodo, Raja Ampat or the Banda Sea, carry paying guests in comfort, and turn divers around all day without drama. We build liveaboards and dive boats for charter operators from that starting point: what route will it run, how many guests, how many dives a day, and what does the operator need to protect margin. The hull follows the operation, not the other way round.
This is a build-for-charter page. We build and refit the boats that operators run; the charters themselves, and professional management once a boat is in service, are handled by our sister brand. When a build is finished and earning, owners often move to
professional vessel and charter management once the boat is in service.
The dive deck decides everything
Start at the dive deck and work outward. Tank benches and rinse tanks sized to the guest count; a camera table that stays dry; a ladder and platform that a loaded diver can climb in a swell; and a tender or two that launch fast. Behind it sits the compressor and nitrox membrane, isolated for noise and heat, with fill lines run so a full set of tanks is ready between dives. Get this wrong and the crew fight the boat all season; get it right and the boat sells itself.
Cabins, comfort and RevPAC
Guests pay for sleep, food and the water. Cabins need air handling that beats Indonesian humidity, quiet running at anchor, and heads that work. The galley and saloon are sized to the guest count and the menu the operator wants to serve. We think in RevPAC — revenue per available cabin — because every cabin that is comfortable and sells is the return on the whole build. Interior and layout are drawn in-house; see
our naval architecture and design page.
Destination-ready for Komodo and Raja Ampat
A boat built for these waters is specified for range between fuel stops, tankage for long itineraries away from a dock, ground tackle for coral anchorages, and the draft and manoeuvring to work tight sites. We build the hull to operate in Komodo and Raja Ampat from day one — that is destination-readiness, not a claim to be a shipyard in those places. The build happens in Bulukumba; the boat goes to work in the east.
USD bands
A new dive liveaboard is a major build; bands run from the upper six figures into seven figures USD depending on length, cabin count and systems. For the operator’s side of the sums — occupancy, RevPAC and payback — see our
build-to-charter investment page. Every hull is quoted after specification.
Bulukumba Shipyard is the regency newbuild-and-refit yard brand of Juara Holding Group (established 2015), a sister brand to Komodo Luxury. The yard sits in Bulukumba Regency, South Sulawesi — Butta Panrita Lopi, the land of the Konjo and Bugis panrita lopi master shipwrights who build and restore wooden phinisi hulls, from keel-laying to haul-out.
Talk to the yard: WhatsApp +62 811-3823-875 · email sales@komodoluxury.com. Every hull is quoted after specification; price bands below are in US dollars.