VIP XI is a handcrafted wooden phinisi liveaboard offered for sale in Labuan Bajo, and it comes to market as a working charter vessel rather than a project waiting for money. At 34.4 meters on a 6.3 meter beam, it carries eighteen guests across eight ensuite cabins, every one of them with air conditioning and its own bathroom. Two of those cabins are full suites with king beds, private balconies and bathtubs. The rest cover the deluxe, family and superior tiers that fill a boat on an ordinary week rather than only in high season. Komodo Luxury is the listing partner. We are recognized by Forbes, CNN Indonesia and TripAdvisor as the best boat agency in Labuan Bajo, and this vessel has been sailing inside our own charter programme, which means the operating history behind it is ours to show you rather than something we have to ask a stranger to confirm.
Anyone looking at a liveaboard boat for sale in Indonesia is rarely buying only a boat. They are buying a position in the Komodo charter market, and that position is decided by how many guests a vessel can carry in comfort and what those guests will pay per night. VIP XI sits in the VIP class, the tier that private families and small groups book when they want the whole boat to themselves. Eight cabins spread across four comfort levels let an operator sell a private charter at one price and a shared sailing at another without either offer pulling the other down. The systems on board are sized for that kind of use. A Mitsubishi 8DC11 main engine rated at 340 horsepower moves a hull of this size without strain. A 33 kVA generator carries air conditioning, the galley and the whole cabin deck through a full night at anchor. Eight thousand liters of fresh water keeps eighteen guests and the crew supplied across a long itinerary before any resupply is needed. Those numbers quietly decide how far from Labuan Bajo an itinerary can go and how many nights it can stay out, and that is what a boat is finally able to charge for.
VIP XI is a traditional wooden phinisi, built in the Indonesian boat building tradition that has produced these hulls for centuries. That matters commercially and not only sentimentally. International travelers searching for a Komodo liveaboard are, in a very real sense, booking the vessel itself, and a genuine wooden phinisi is something a fiberglass hull simply cannot imitate. Guests photograph it, they talk about it, and they send other guests toward it without anyone paying for the advertising. The craft behind these boats is carried by shipwright families who work largely from judgment rather than from drawings, choosing and seasoning timber the way their fathers did before them. Hulls built this way sit and behave in Indonesian water in a way that boats drawn in an office elsewhere do not. VIP XI has run the Komodo National Park circuit under full manifests, through long anchorages and through a season that gives no one a rest, which is the only honest test a liveaboard ever gets. Komodo Luxury holds a 4.9 out of 5 rating across more than 1,500 guest reviews. That rating covers our whole operation rather than this single hull, but it is our operation that has maintained this hull, and that is the standard it has been kept to.
VIP XI is built for comfort and endurance on long Indonesian passages. Length: 34.4 meters | Beam: 6.3 meters | Construction: wooden traditional ship, handcrafted phinisi | Main engine: Mitsubishi 8DC11, 340 HP | Generator: Mitsubishi 4D32, 33 kVA | Cruising speed: 7 to 10 knots | Fresh water capacity: 8,000 liters | Navigation and safety: Garmin 585plus with AIS, life support equipment on board | Total cabins: 8 | Guest capacity: 18 persons | Home port: Labuan Bajo, Flores. Every cabin on board is air conditioned and every cabin has its own bathroom, which sounds ordinary until you compare it with the tier below, where shared bathrooms are still common and guests notice on the first morning. The vessel is also equipped for the water rather than only for the deck, with snorkeling gear, life vests and a tender for island landings already part of the working operation.
The cabin layout is what gives VIP XI its pricing flexibility, so it is worth setting out plainly.
Read together, four tiers on one hull mean an operator can sell three or four clearly different products on the same departure. That is what holds the average nightly rate steady across a whole season instead of only through the peak weeks.
Guests remember where they spent their afternoons. VIP XI gives them an open sun deck for the long stretches between islands, a shaded outdoor space for the quieter hours, and an indoor dining area with a bar for meals and for evenings when the weather turns. Dining is run all inclusive with a chef on board, which for a buyer is a piece of the business that already exists and already works rather than something to assemble after the handover. The boat is set up for the water as much as for the deck, with snorkeling equipment, life vests and a tender that handles beach landings at the usual stops on the Komodo National Park route, from Padar and Pink Beach to Manta Point, Taka Makassar, Kelor and Gili Lawa. A cruising speed of 7 to 10 knots is exactly what this vessel is built for: steady, unhurried passages with a full boat aboard rather than fast transits between points.
A wooden phinisi at this length, with eight ensuite cabins, four comfort tiers and a real charter record behind it, does not reach the open market often, and boats at this specification usually change hands quietly. We run every sale the same way, and it is better said here than saved for a phone call. You commission an independent marine survey from a surveyor you choose yourself. You take the boat out on a sea trial in real conditions. We open the ownership documents and the operating permits for a complete audit. Payments are staged against milestones rather than sent in a single transfer. If the survey turns up something material, we will tell you. In a market where every operator in Labuan Bajo knows every other operator, a brokerage that buries a finding to close one deal does not get a second one. After purchase we can keep the vessel crewed and operating under our management if you would rather it kept earning than sat on a mooring. VIP XI is available for inspection in Labuan Bajo now. Contact Komodo Luxury today to request the full specification package and arrange your sea trial.
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