Most wooden liveaboards for sale in Labuan Bajo are sized for one kind of booking. VIP IX is built to take on several. Built from ironwood and teak across 30 meters of hull and powered by a Mitsubishi 8DC11 rated at 340 horsepower, VIP IX pairs the classic phinisi profile that international travelers actively search for with the largest guest capacity of any hull currently in our for-sale inventory. Seven ensuite cabins. Twenty-one guests. A jacuzzi, a panoramic indoor lounge, a sunroof, and AIS mapping on the bridge. VIP IX is offered at USD 444,444 as a working vessel, not a restoration candidate. Komodo Luxury — recognized by Forbes, CNN Indonesia, and TripAdvisor as Best Boat Agency in Labuan Bajo — is the listing partner, and this hull has been running inside our own charter operation rather than arriving to us secondhand.
The Komodo National Park liveaboard market rewards vessels that can serve more than one kind of booking without turning any of them away. Most liveaboard boats for sale in Labuan Bajo at this price tier are sized for a single group profile — comfortable for a small private party, but unable to flex upward when a larger group, a dive club, or a corporate retreat enquires. VIP IX is sized to say yes to both ends of that range. Twenty-one guests across seven ensuite cabins is among the largest private-charter capacity available in this bracket, and the cabin plan behind it — detailed further below — is built in mixed tiers rather than one flat category, so couples, families, dive groups, and odd-numbered parties can all be accommodated on the same sailing at appropriate price points. That variety is what lifts occupancy on shoulder-season departures, when full-boat charters are harder to land and flexible cabin-by-cabin selling matters most. The commercial fundamentals behind that capacity are already in place. Twin 15 kVA generators mean air conditioning can run in all seven cabins overnight at anchor without staking an entire charter on a single generator holding, and a navigation suite carrying radio, VHF, GPS, and AIS mapping supports safe operation across longer, fuller sailings. AIS in particular is a working safety and traffic-management tool on busy Indonesian water, not a checkbox — and it is not universal on the wooden liveaboards for sale in this bracket.
The hull is traditional Indonesian construction in ironwood and teak, shaped by builders working from methods passed down through generations, then fitted out with contemporary safety systems. That combination is the whole argument for buying a phinisi rather than a production fiberglass hull. Ironwood is dense, slow to rot, and forgiving of the warm salt water it was selected for over centuries of use in these islands. It also gives the vessel a profile that international travelers actively search for — the silhouette is a large part of what people are booking when they book a Komodo liveaboard, and it is not something a modern hull can borrow. VIP IX has operated as a VIP-class charter vessel out of Labuan Bajo, working the Komodo National Park circuit through the conditions that expose every weakness a boat has: long anchorages, full guest loads, and a season that does not stop to let systems recover. A buyer inherits a documented operating record rather than a set of assumptions. Komodo Luxury holds a 4.9 out of 5 guest rating across more than 1,500 reviews. That rating covers our operation as a whole rather than this hull alone, but it is our operation that has been maintaining this hull, and it is the standard the boat has been held to.
VIP IX is built for comfort, capacity, and extended multi-day cruising across Indonesian waters. Length: 30 meters | Beam: 5.1 meters | Construction: Wooden Traditional Ship, ironwood and teak | Engine: Mitsubishi 8DC11, 340HP | Cruising Speed: 15 – 16 Knots | Electricity: 2 x 15 kVA Generators | Fresh Water Capacity: 6,000 Liters | Navigation: Radio, VHF, GPS, AIS Mapping | Total Cabins: 7 | Guest Capacity: 21 Persons. Every cabin on board is air-conditioned with a private ensuite bathroom and a sea view. There are no interior cabins anywhere on the vessel, which matters more than it sounds when a buyer is modelling what each berth can actually be sold for.
VIP IX’s cabin plan is unusually varied for a 30-meter hull, and that variety is a commercial asset rather than an accident.
Read as a whole, this layout serves booking profiles that a uniform cabin plan turns away. Couples, families, dive groups, and odd-numbered parties can all be accommodated on the same sailing at appropriate price points, which is exactly what lifts occupancy on shoulder-season departures when full-boat charters are harder to land.
The jacuzzi is the feature that circulates. Guests photograph it, post it, and it does marketing work that no advertising budget replicates — for a buyer treating VIP IX as a commercial asset, that is a line in the revenue case rather than a comfort. Around it the vessel offers a sunroof and a dedicated sunbath area for open-sky hours, generous deck space for a boat of this beam, and an outdoor chill area for the stretches between sites. Inside, a lounge wrapped in panoramic windows and a separate indoor dining area give guests somewhere genuinely pleasant when the sun is punishing or the weather turns — the kind of provision that keeps a three-day charter comfortable rather than merely survivable. Snorkeling gear and life vests are already aboard for guests. VIP IX is also proportioned correctly for the water it works. At 30 meters on a 5.1 meter beam, the hull is narrow enough to anchor close and hold position inside the tight bays that the Komodo circuit depends on, while carrying enough length to stay steady on the open crossings between them.
Wooden phinisi for sale in Labuan Bajo with this combination — seven ensuite cabins, twenty-one-guest capacity, AIS-equipped navigation, and a documented charter record inside Komodo National Park — don’t sit on the market long, and they rarely come back once sold. Operators who understand what that capacity is worth on a full-boat rate card do not need convincing twice. We run every sale the same way, and it is worth stating plainly rather than saving for a call: an independent marine survey that you commission from a surveyor of your own choosing, a sea trial under way in real conditions, a full audit of ownership documents and operating permits, and payments staged against milestones instead of a single transfer up front. If the survey finds something material, we will tell you. A brokerage that hides a finding to close one deal does not get another one in a market where every operator knows every other operator. Crewed management and charter-back operation are available after purchase if you would rather the vessel kept working than sat on a mooring. VIP IX is offered at USD 444,444 and available for inspection now. Contact Komodo Luxury today to request the full specification package and lock in your sea trial date in Labuan Bajo — before another buyer secures it first.
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