Refit Planning & Cost
Budgets, schedules, contingency and owner representation. How a West Papua yard account is actually built from seven components, what moves the number, how to compare two quotations on the same basis, how long different refit programmes realistically take, and how to fund the heavy special survey year across the four before it.Downtime belongs in the budget. For a working Raja Ampat liveaboard, lost charter revenue frequently exceeds the entire yard bill, which changes what counts as sensible spending — faster coatings, air freight, and full-time supervision on the slipway.
Refit Planning & Cost
Refit Budget Overruns: The Five Causes and How to Cap Them
Refit budgets are broken by five causes, in roughly this order: scope discovered after opening up, scope added by choice mid-project, logistics and freight underestimated, labour idling against missing parts or decisions, and rework…
Refit Planning & Cost
Owner’s Representative: What They Do During a Yard Period
An owner’s representative is the person who stands in the owner’s shoes for the length of a yard period: verifying that the work billed is the work done, holding scope and schedule against drift,…
Refit Planning & Cost
Planning a Refit Between Dive Seasons: A Timeline That Works
A refit that must fit between dive seasons works backwards from one immovable date — the first charter of the new season — and succeeds or fails on what happened before the vessel ever…
Refit Planning & Cost
How Much Does Annual Maintenance for a Dive Boat Cost in Raja Ampat?
Why there is no single figure for annual dive boat maintenance in Raja Ampat, the ten cost lines that make it up, and a method for building a defensible number.
Refit Planning & Cost
Long-Term Maintenance Budget Planning for Phinisi in Sorong
How to build a multi-year maintenance budget for a wooden phinisi working Raja Ampat: what wears, what it costs to defer, and how to fund the heavy years.
Refit Planning & Cost
Minimising Downtime During Refit in Raja Ampat and Sorong
Eight practical decisions that shorten a refit in West Papua, why lay days accumulate, and how to split afloat and dry work so the vessel keeps earning.
Refit Planning & Cost
Biaya Galangan Kapal di Raja Ampat dan Sorong untuk Investor
Struktur biaya galangan di Sorong dan Raja Ampat untuk investor kapal wisata: tujuh komponen biaya, pemicu utama, siklus lima tahun, dan cara membandingkan penawaran.
Refit Planning & Cost
How Long Does a Full Liveaboard Refit Take in West Papua?
Realistic refit durations for liveaboards in Sorong and Raja Ampat, what actually sets the schedule, and the four decisions that shorten it.