Particulars
A first read on feasible yards and realistic windows.
Bali Shipyard
Bali Shipyard — repair, refit and haul-out, placed where the job fits
Bali · Benoa · SeranganA yard-coordination desk for Bali. We survey the boat, write the scope a yard can price, place the work with the independent yard or contractor best suited to it, and supervise it until handover. Quotations are issued in USD.
Bali yards only. New-build construction and vessel sale sit with other desks in the group and are contracted separately — if an enquiry is really a construction enquiry, we route it rather than reshape it.
Written and maintained by the Bali Shipyard Build Desk · last reviewed 19 August 2026
The hold point after pressure washing — the moment a scope is either confirmed or rewritten.
The four numbers
Loaded draft. Not brochure draft, not draft when the tanks were empty. Sending these four in the first message removes half the candidate facilities immediately.
Nothing is stored or submitted here. The button only assembles the four figures into a WhatsApp message you can edit before sending.
Survey
A condition note that separates must-do from should-do.
Scope
A written scope and a USD estimate.
Placement
Confirmed slot, lift plan, and access arrangements.
Execution
Progress reporting against the scope.
Handover
A closing file with photographs and completed items.
Six lanes, and the limit that governs each one
Bali is one of the busiest working coastlines in Indonesia. The problem is rarely a shortage of capability — it is that capability is scattered across separate hardstands, slipways and workshops with different lift limits, different draft on approach, and different levels of documentation.
Independent of every facility described. Work is placed where the job fits, not where a commission sits.
How a job runs
Six stages, and what you actually receive at each one
| Stage | What happens | What you receive |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Particulars | LOA, beam, draft, displacement, hull material, propulsion, and the work list as you see it. | A first read on feasible yards and realistic windows. |
| 2. Survey | Attendance on board or in the water; photographs, moisture readings, thickness readings where relevant. | A condition note that separates must-do from should-do. |
| 3. Scope | The work list is written into priced items with hold points. | A written scope and a USD estimate. |
| 4. Placement | Yard or contractor is selected against lift capacity, draft, and trade availability. | Confirmed slot, lift plan, and access arrangements. |
| 5. Execution | Supervision on the hardstand, variation control, photo record per stage. | Progress reporting against the scope. |
| 6. Handover | Re-launch, systems check, sea trial where the scope calls for it. | A closing file with photographs and completed items. |
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Hold point after pressure wash. Work stops, the hull is read wet, and the scope is either confirmed or rewritten before anything is coated over. It is the most valuable inspection gate in the whole calendar.
Being lifted is not the same as being supported
A hull carried on badly placed blocks develops hard spots and, on long stays in tropical heat, can take a permanent set. Blocks belong under bulkheads, floors and structural members. Side stands are there to stop the boat falling over, not to carry weight, and they need re-checking after the hull settles.
Full capability guide — lift, support, trade, coating, lead time
| Hull material | Support sensitivity | Watch for |
|---|---|---|
| GRP | High on long stays | Print-through and hard spots over unsupported panel. |
| Steel | Moderate | Point loading on plating between frames; corrosion under blocks. |
| Aluminium | Moderate to high | Galvanic contact with blocking materials and yard steel. |
| Timber | High | Drying and seam opening; cradle fit along the full length. |
| Ferrocement | High | Concentrated loads; limited repair trade availability. |
Constraint two
Which facility, and what to verify before you commit a boat to it
Bali’s boat work concentrates on the south coast, with the Benoa harbour precinct as the main commercial and marine-services hub and Serangan as the second working cluster. This is a capability orientation, not an endorsement.
| Facility type | Typically suits | Verify first |
|---|---|---|
| Main harbour precinct | Complex jobs needing several trades at once. | Channel depth, berth availability, lift capacity. |
| Secondary working cluster | Small craft, dive and day boats, timber work. | Approach draft and tidal window. |
| Independent hardstand | Lay-up, antifoul, single-trade jobs. | Ground bearing, blocking, security, access hours. |
| Slipway / railway | Heavy displacement and long-keel hulls. | Cradle fit and rail approach depth. |
Benoa harbour precinct
The centre of gravity for marine services on the island. The practical advantage is density: fabrication, marine electrical, refrigeration, engine service, chandlery and freight clearance all sit within a short radius, which shortens the “waiting for a specialist” portion of any job. Check approach depth in the channel at the relevant tide state, berth availability during peak commercial periods, and whether the specific lift you need is inside the precinct or a run away from it.
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Serangan
The second working cluster, heavily used by dive boats, day boats, fast boats and traditional craft, with a strong trade base in timber, GRP and outboard work. Draft is the thing to verify: the approach and inner areas are shallow in places and tide-dependent, which rules out some deeper-draft vessels or restricts them to a tidal window.
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All Bali boat yard locations, and the ten questions worth asking any facility before you commit
Constraint three
Coating owns the critical path
Coating is where tropical yards lose the most time, because the constraints are environmental rather than human. Paint systems have humidity and surface-temperature windows, overcoat windows, and cure schedules that do not compress.
- Surface temperature
- In the tropics it can exceed the coating’s specified maximum by mid-morning, which shortens the usable working day to the early hours.
- Dew point margin
- It matters more than nominal humidity, and it is the reason evening application often fails.
- Overcoat windows
- Two-pack systems are unforgiving; a missed window can mean abrading a whole surface back.
- Containment
- Sheeting and staging are a real line item, not an optional extra, if a quality topside finish is expected.
Build the programme around the coating windows and everything else fits; build it around the joinery and the paint will be rushed.
Usable application window, dry-season hardstand
Early morning
Mid-morning
Afternoon
Evening
Relative, not measured: surface temperature climbs past the coating maximum by mid-morning, and dew point margin closes the evening. Wet-season work stays viable with containment and a written weather-day allowance.
Programme profiles
Five jobs, anonymised on purpose
A portfolio that names boats and quotes figures usually means somebody’s confidentiality was traded for marketing. These are written so the engineering is useful and the client is not identifiable.
Charter motor yacht — annual haul-out with discovery
- Presenting scope
- Routine annual lift, antifoul, anode renewal, propeller clean before the dry-season charter run.
- What it actually was
- Localised coating breakdown around the running gear, two soft areas near a through-hull, and anode consumption well above the expected rate.
- How it was handled
- Work stopped at the post-wash hold point. Moisture readings were mapped, affected areas were opened rather than coated over, and a bonding continuity test traced the anode consumption to a broken bonding connection rather than stray current. Revised scope and revised USD figure were approved in writing before laminating started.
Lesson. The hold point after pressure washing is the most valuable inspection gate in the whole calendar. Painting over a soft area buys one season and costs three.
Sailing yacht — deck leak chain
- Presenting scope
- Interior water staining in two cabins; the owner assumed hatch seals.
- What it actually was
- Hatch seals were part of it. The larger source was deck hardware bedded on a compound long past its life, with water tracking along a core void to a point several metres from the entry.
- How it was handled
- The interior repair was deliberately deferred. Hardware was removed and re-bedded, the wet core was opened, dried and rebuilt, then the deck was flooded and observed before any joinery went back. Interior finishing followed only after two rain events with no ingress.
Lesson. Repairing visible damage before proving the source dry is the most common way to pay for the same job twice.
Dive boat — repower
- Presenting scope
- Replace tired engines before the season.
- What it actually was
- Imported engines with a long lead time, limited hardstand availability in the weeks before the season, and a shaft line sized for the outgoing units.
- How it was handled
- Engines and controls were ordered at scope stage, months before the lift. Bed modification and shaft-line work were surveyed and drawn while the boat was still trading, so the yard was executing a known plan rather than measuring. Alignment was set after the boat was back in the water and had settled.
Lesson. On a repower the yard time is short and the procurement time is long. Booking the yard first and ordering later is the standard way to lose a season.
Traditional timber vessel — structural repair
- Presenting scope
- Weeping seams and a suspected fastening problem in the topsides.
- What it actually was
- A run of degraded fastenings and two frames requiring partial replacement, discovered progressively as planking was opened.
- How it was handled
- Scoped deliberately as a staged job with a large discovery allowance and inspection after each opened section, because timber structural work cannot be fully priced from outside. The vessel was slipped rather than lifted, so the cradle carried the hull along its length.
Lesson. Timber work should be scoped in stages with an honest allowance, not as a fixed-price fiction.
Motor yacht — full topside coating programme
- Presenting scope
- Tired topsides; a full repaint wanted before a sale season.
- What it actually was
- Coating windows in a humid climate, a containment requirement for a quality finish, and a hardstand slot long enough to absorb weather days.
- How it was handled
- The programme was built backwards from the coating schedule. Fairing was signed off at a hold point before primer; paint days were planned against early-morning surface temperature and dew point margin rather than against the calendar; weather-day allowance was written into the programme instead of being absorbed as an overrun.
Lesson. On a paint job, the paint owns the programme. Every other trade schedules around it.
5 entries
Yard Journal
Twenty-one working notes, written for people who have to decide something
Bali haul-out methods: travel lift, slipway, crane
View DetailsDry dock planning: tides, draft and booking
View DetailsAntifouling in Bali: coating systems
View DetailsTropical corrosion control: anodes and bonding
View DetailsOsmosis and blister repair on a GRP hull
View DetailsTeak deck repair and recaulking
View DetailsBenoa shipyard area guide
View DetailsSerangan boat yard access and draft
View DetailsWet season, dry season: timing yard work
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Boundaries
What this desk does not do
- We do not build new hulls on this desk.
- We do not sell boats on this desk.
- We do not present ourselves as the operator of any third-party facility.
- We do not publish invented price lists — yard pricing moves with lift availability, coating system, and how much work is discovered once the hull is clean.
- We do not accept unapproved variations into the account.
What we publish instead is the capability guide, which tells you what actually constrains a job, and the project portfolio, which shows the shape of work this desk handles.
Who issues what
Separate contracts, separate fees, separate ledgers
Bali Shipyard is a specialist maritime brand under Juara Holding Group, operating since 2015. Quotations and accounts on this desk are issued in USD.
PT Komodo Galangan Nusantara
Construction, repair, refit and vessel-sale contracts — the contracting entity for everything on this desk.
PT Komodo Vessel Management
Boat-management contracts. For owners who want the boat looked after year-round rather than job by job, ongoing technical oversight runs through the integrated vessel management desk.
PT Komodo Bahari Nusantara
Brokerage, central agency and charter marketing contracts.
Shoreside logistics, crew movements and provisioning in Bali can be arranged through Bali vessel concierge support.
The questions this desk is actually asked
No. Bali Shipyard is a coordination and supervision desk. We survey the vessel, write the scope, place the work with independent yards and contractors in Bali, and supervise it to handover. We do not own or operate the facilities we place work into.
It is set by travel-lift and slipway capacity rather than by trade skill, and most routine work sits under roughly 30 metres. Larger hulls are usually handled afloat or moved to a bigger facility, and we say which category you fall into at particulars stage.
For the dry-season run, treat six to ten weeks ahead as normal for a confirmed lift slot, and longer if the scope needs a full coating system with cure time. Emergency lifts are possible but you take whatever slot exists.
Because a yard figure written before the hull is stripped is a guess. Quotations follow survey and are issued in USD, so the figure you approve is the figure you settle.
Work stops at the hold point, the discovered item is photographed and priced in USD, and nothing proceeds until the owner approves it in writing. Unapproved variations are not accepted into the account.
Repair, refit and haul-out contracts are issued by PT Komodo Galangan Nusantara. Boat-management contracts are issued by PT Komodo Vessel Management. Brokerage and charter marketing contracts are issued by PT Komodo Bahari Nusantara. They are separate contracts with separate fees.
The full FAQ — scope, yards, timing, cost, insurance and records
Send the particulars, the work list, and the dates you cannot move
Even a rough work list is enough to start. If the boat is already damaged, send photographs and the position — stabilise first, scope later. You get a written scope and a USD estimate before anything is booked.
WhatsApp is fastest for anything urgent, including damage and grounding. Email suits scope documents, drawings and survey reports. Full checklist on the contact page.