Lamima: World’s Largest Wooden Ketch Now on Our 2026 Komodo List

Labuan Bajo, 17 August 2026 — Lamima, the 65.2-metre wooden sailing yacht described by her builders and the international yachting press as the largest ketch of her kind afloat, is now bookable for Komodo through the Komodo Trip desk. She is the third superyacht on our 2026 list, after Lasha and Prana by Atzaró, and by a wide margin the largest hull we have ever quoted: two masts, seven cabins, fourteen guests, a permanent professional crew, and a from-rate of USD 27,000 plus 11% VAT per night. One thing to be clear about from the first line — there are no shared cabins on this boat, and there never have been. Every Lamima booking is the whole yacht. This post covers the news in practical terms: what she actually is, what she costs in 2026, who she suits, and how a charter comes together from our desk at Labuan Bajo Harbor.

What Is the Lamima Yacht?

Lamima was launched in 2014 from Ara, the village in South Sulawesi where phinisi hulls have been laid for generations, and drawn by Spanish naval architect Marcelo Penna — a pairing of traditional Indonesian boatbuilding with a modern naval-architecture office that produced a vessel unlike anything else in the eastern Indonesian fleet. She measures 65.2 m by 11.20 m and is rigged as a two-masted ketch: a sailing boat first, with a MAN 1,000 HP main engine held in reserve for when the wind fails. For scale, most of the phinisi loading provisions beside her at the harbor run 30 to 40 metres.

Her paperwork is as unusual as her size. Lamima holds RINA classification, and her operator states she is the only Indonesian-flagged yacht carrying an international safety-class certificate — the line an insurer, a corporate travel department, or a parent chartering with children reads first. Search engines index her under several names: the Lamima yacht on international broker sites, the Lamima phinisi in Indonesian listings, and now and then a “Lamima superyacht” — the one label the rest of the fleet would concede without argument. The full independent profile — verified specifications, the photo set, and how she compares with her sister superyachts — lives on our Lamima yacht page. This post is the announcement: she is on our calendar now.

Seven Cabins Named for the Sea

Her seven air-conditioned cabins carry sea-creature names — the Seahorse master suite, with Crab, Lobster, Dolphin and Swordfish among the guest cabins — and together they sleep fourteen, which is the number that defines who charters her: three-generation families, two or three couples travelling as one party, small teams marking something worth marking. What separates her interior from every other wooden boat in the region is space spent on things phinisi simply never carry — a dedicated gym, a spa, and a yoga deck — alongside a saloon and an outdoor dining area that seat the full guest list at one table.

The engineering underneath is sized to match. A watermaker produces 10,000 litres of fresh water per day, so showers after a saltwater afternoon are never rationed. A Kohler generator bank — three 50 kW units plus a 25 kW set for quiet anchorages after dark — keeps air-conditioning, galley and dive compressors running around the clock, and the communications suite covers SSB, MF/HF and VHF. At 8 knots cruising she is not fast, and does not pretend to be. The point of a ketch this size is that the passage itself — canvas up between Padar and the western gates of the park — is the product, not the delay before it.

Lamima Charter Price: The 2026 Numbers

The 2026 rate starts at USD 27,000 plus 11% VAT per night — roughly IDR 440 million — and every figure our desk or any broker quotes for her is a from-price: the final number moves with dates, route, positioning and guest count, and we put it in writing before anything is held. Two honesty notes we attach to every enquiry. First, search results sometimes describe a “Lamima liveaboard” or “Lamima cruise” as if cabins were sold individually. They are not. If your budget is per-person, the open-trip fleet is the honest place to start — shared 3D2N cabins run from USD 220 per person and private charters from USD 1,200 per day, and our desk books those daily.

Second, Komodo National Park fees sit outside the charter rate — on this yacht and on any honestly quoted boat. Entry for foreign visitors runs IDR 250,000 (about USD 16) per person per day, ranger-led trekking IDR 200,000 per group of up to five (Padar IDR 150,000), and the park now enforces a 1,000-visitor daily cap for the Komodo–Padar zone through the SiOra reservation system, in force since April 2026. On a 14-guest charter those trekking slots are reserved together with the yacht — exactly the kind of detail a desk standing in Labuan Bajo exists to handle before you land.

How Her Komodo Season Runs

A Komodo week aboard runs out of Labuan Bajo through the park’s central circuit: the Padar summit at 5:15 AM before the heat builds, Pink Beach mid-morning, the ranger-led dragon walk on Komodo or Rinca, Taka Makassar’s sandbar at low tide, and the manta cleaning stations in the channel through the afternoon — with the ketch repositioning under sail wherever the wind cooperates. At 8 knots, passages are planned around meals and light rather than speed, which on this hull is a feature, not an apology.

Two calendar realities shape 2026 bookings. The dry season, June through September, is when the largest hulls fill first — and Lamima’s Komodo window is not year-round. Like the other superyachts working Indonesia, she divides her season between cruising grounds, Komodo and Raja Ampat among them, so confirmed Komodo dates are the scarce commodity, not the rate. When an enquiry lands, the desk checks her calendar the same day and answers with actual dates rather than a form response; if her window and yours do not overlap, we say so and name the nearest alternative.

Who Should Charter Her — and Who Shouldn’t

She earns her rate for full parties: fourteen guests across seven cabins, one table, one crew, and the gym–spa–yoga triangle that turns a five-day charter into something closer to a floating retreat. Against her sisters on our list, the arithmetic is straightforward. Lasha opens her Komodo season this week from USD 9,800 per night for up to 14 guests; Prana by Atzaró runs from USD 20,000 per night with nine cabins for 18. Lamima, from USD 27,000, is the sailing purist’s answer — the boat you charter because the rig, the RINA certificate and the sheer scale of a 65-metre wooden hull matter to your group. She is the wrong boat for a couple wanting a private phinisi to themselves — a premium six-cabin hull at USD 5,000–8,000 per night does that job at a fraction of the rate — and the wrong boat for per-person budgets, which belong with the open-trip fleet and lose nothing of the park for it.

How to Book Lamima Through the Komodo Trip Desk

Send your dates, guest count and route preference on WhatsApp at +62 811 3823 875 or by email to [email protected]. Komodo Trip is operated by Komodo Luxury since 2015, and the desk sits at Labuan Bajo Harbor — the people quoting the yacht are the same people on the dock when she tenders guests ashore. Dewi, who runs guest experience, coordinates superyacht enquiries end to end: availability usually confirmed within the day, then a written from-quote with VAT, park fees and any positioning costs itemised separately, so the number you compare is the real one. Adding Lamima puts the largest wooden sailing yacht of her kind on the same 2026 calendar as our USD 220 shared cabins — the full width of the Komodo fleet, one desk.

Rates checked & calendar verified: 17 August 2026 · Komodo Trip desk, Labuan Bajo Harbor.