Galangan Kapal Kayu Bira: Panduan Lengkap Berbahasa Indonesia
Galangan kapal kayu Bira berada di pesisir Ara-Tanjung Bira, Kecamatan Bonto Bahari, Kabupaten Bulukumba, Sulawesi Selatan – Butta Panrita Lopi, tanah para.
A Morning at the Ara and Bira Yards: A Visitor’s Walking Route
The best way to see wooden boatbuilding at Bira is a slow morning walk along the working shoreline, from the Bira headland toward the Ara yards, while the.
From Bira to Komodo: The Delivery Voyage Most Owners Never See
The delivery voyage from Bira to your cruising ground is the milestone owners forget to budget – and it is a real one. Getting a finished hull from the Sou.
New Build or Refit? Choosing Your Path to a Wooden Boat
New build or refit comes down to what you value most: exact specification and known history, or a faster, cheaper route with more unknowns. A new build giv.
Buying a Used Phinisi at Bira: A Due-Diligence Checklist
Buying a used wooden phinisi rewards patience and punishes assumptions. Before you pay, confirm four things: clean ownership history and no liens, an indep.
BKI, Flag and Pas Besar: Registering a Wooden Vessel in Indonesia
Registering a wooden vessel in Indonesia runs through BKI classification, gross-tonnage measurement, and flagging with a Pas Besar for larger hulls – and t.
Traditional or Hybrid? Steel Frames, Survey and Insurance
You can build a purely traditional wooden phinisi or a hybrid with steel framing and modern systems – and the choice reaches far beyond aesthetics into cla.
Cargo Phinisi vs Luxury Liveaboard: One Hull, Two Business Cases
A cargo phinisi and a luxury liveaboard can share the same hull and differ entirely above deck – and in the business case. The hull is a fraction of the co.
Designing a Dive Liveaboard for Komodo and Raja Ampat
A dive liveaboard is designed from the dive deck outward, not the cabins in. For Komodo and Raja Ampat that means planning tank and compressor storage, ten.
Phinisi, Schooner or Gulet: Which Wooden Hull Fits Your Plan
Choosing between a phinisi, a schooner and a gulet is really a choice about rig, aesthetics and use – all three can be built in the same Bira timber by the.
How Long a Wooden Phinisi Hull Actually Lasts
A well-built, well-maintained wooden phinisi hull routinely serves for decades. Longevity comes far less from the species alone than from three things: how.
Wooden Dowels vs Steel: Why Bira Hulls Are Built Without Nails
Bira hulls are dowelled, not nailed, and it is a deliberate engineering choice. Hardwood dowels – pasak – swell against the planking once wet, never corrod.