LAMIMA carries 1,277 square metres of North Sails on two masts, and most of what matters about her follows from that figure. She is 65.2 metres of ironwood, built by hand in South Sulawesi and delivered in 2014 to a design by Marcelo Pena. Seven cabins sleep fourteen. Twenty crew run her. Of more than 900 square metres of usable space, over 400 is open deck, and that ratio is the reason fourteen guests rarely find themselves in the same corner of the yacht at the same time.
The build is the point of difference. Haji Baso and Haji Saka led her construction in the Konjo tradition, the same lineage of shipwrights who have shaped phinisi on the beaches of Sulawesi for generations, working from ironwood without the moulds or computer modelling a European yard would take for granted. What that produces is a hull with the proportions of a working spice trader and the systems of a modern charter yacht. She is not a replica. She is the tradition continued at a scale it has rarely been asked to reach.
Under way she is deliberate. A single MAN of 1,000 horsepower pushes her at eight knots, and eight knots is also her top speed, which tells you she was built to sail rather than to motor between anchorages. Her draft of 3.7 metres lets her work close to reefs and into bays that deeper vessels have to admire from outside.
Her year splits cleanly. From January to May and again through November and December she is based out of Sorong, working Raja Ampat, Triton Bay and the Spice Islands. From June to October she moves west to Labuan Bajo for Komodo, Flores and Bali. These are the richest reefs in the Coral Triangle, and the yacht is equipped to get guests into them properly: scuba diving with equipment and dive masters is included, alongside two jetskis, two E-Foil boards, two underwater scooters, six surfboards, six stand-up paddle boards, two sea kayaks, a sailing dinghy, wakeboard and water ski.
The cabins are named for what lives outside them. Seahorse is the master, with its own dressing room. Crab, Lobster, Dolphin and Swordfish are doubles; Turtle and Manta convert as twins, which makes her workable for families as well as groups of couples. All are ensuite, all air-conditioned, all finished in the same warm timber that runs through the rest of the interior.
The charter is genuinely inclusive, and unusually so for the region. Meals, beverages, water sports, diving with equipment, massages, fitness and yoga, transfers and park and entrance fees are all covered. What is left to the guest is gratuities and the things no operator controls. Rates are quoted per night rather than per week, which suits the way voyages here actually run, since minimum stays vary by region and the distances between island groups are real.
LAMIMA suits travellers who want the Indonesian archipelago on its own terms and are content to move slowly through it, under sail, on a vessel that was made where she sails.
