A yard that repairs what it builds
Most of a wooden boat’s life is maintenance, and a hull that is looked after outlives one that is not by decades. This is the repair and refit desk: the working side of the yard that keeps phinisi, wooden yachts and liveaboards sound. We repair the boats we build and the boats others built, because the skills are the same — reading a wooden hull, finding the trouble before it spreads, and putting it right with the right timber and fastenings.
Repair is condition-first. Before a quote we want the boat out of the water and open where it matters, so we are pricing the actual problem, not a guess. That happens at our
haul-out and drydock; larger transformations move to full refit and restoration.
What wooden hulls actually need
The common work list: rot repair where fresh water has sat — deck edges, chainplate knees, cabin corners; re-planking sections that have worked loose or split; re-caulking and re-paying seams that weep; renewing fastenings that have wept or corroded; and fairing and re-sheathing below the waterline. On top of the hull sits the systems refit — fuel, bilge, electrical, steering — and interior joinery that has tired. We sequence the work so the boat is never opened up further than it needs to be at one time.
The group’s wider repair network
For owners whose boats are elsewhere in Indonesia, or who need work the Bulukumba yard is not the right place for, this project sits inside
the group’s wider boat-repair and refit programme, which coordinates yard works across the archipelago. Local wooden-hull work, though, is what Bulukumba does best.
Condition assessment, honestly scoped
When a boat comes in we assess its condition in the yard before any refit is priced — moisture readings, fastening checks, a look inside the structure. This in-yard assessment is for our own scoping. It is not a survey: an independent pre-purchase or insurance survey is a separate discipline, and we point owners to independent marine surveyors for that. Our job is to fix the boat, quoted honestly against what we find.
USD and turnaround
Repair is quoted by the job after the boat is open; a re-caulk and antifoul is a short, low-cost visit, while a structural repair with re-planking is a longer yard stay. We give a written scope and a US-dollar estimate before work starts, and we flag contingencies rather than bury them. Talk to the desk with your hull’s age, length and symptoms and we will tell you what a haul-out is likely to reveal.
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.