Frequently Asked Questions
The questions below are the ones the desk is actually asked. They cover what can be done in Bali, how long it takes, what constrains it, and how the commercial side works. Where a question needs a longer answer, the linked page has it.
We survey the vessel, write the work scope, place the work with an independent yard or contractor suited to it, supervise the work, and hand over with a documented file. We do not own the yards. The full description is on about Bali Shipyard.
A repair restores a specific failure or defect. A refit is a planned programme covering many systems at once, usually with the boat out of service for a defined window. If a survey shows deferral across several systems, a programme usually costs less than a run of separate repairs. See Bali boat repair and yacht refit Bali.
Not on this desk. New-build construction sits elsewhere in the group and is contracted separately. If an enquiry is really a construction enquiry, we route it rather than reshape it.
Mainly the Benoa harbour precinct and the Serangan cluster on the south coast, plus smaller hardstands and slipways. See Bali boat yard locations.
Set by lift capacity and beam through the gantry rather than by skill; most routine work sits under roughly 30 metres. The constraints are explained in the shipyard capability guide.
Six to ten weeks is normal before the dry-season run, longer where a full coating system needs cure time. Emergencies take whatever slot exists. See Bali haul out and dry dock.
Slipway for heavy displacement, long keels and timber; hardstand for most GRP and for anything staying ashore for weeks. See Bali slipway and hardstand.
Commonly three to five days out of the water, driven by coating cure and overcoat windows rather than by labour hours.
Six to twelve weeks for a cosmetic and systems programme on a mid-size vessel; months where full fairing, topside paint and structural work are involved.
Because coating windows depend on surface temperature, dew point margin and overcoat intervals, none of which compress. Every other trade schedules around the paint.
Dry-season conditions favour coating work, but that is also when yards are fullest. Wet-season work is viable with containment and a realistic weather allowance. See timing yard work in Bali.
Because a yard figure written before the hull is stripped is a guess, and published figures in this trade are usually either bait or fiction. Quotations follow survey and are issued in USD.
Access, discovery, coating scope, parts lead time and season. Those five variables move a yard estimate far more than labour rates do.
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.
PT Komodo Galangan Nusantara for repair, refit and vessel sale; PT Komodo Vessel Management for boat management; PT Komodo Bahari Nusantara for brokerage and charter marketing. Separate contracts, separate fees.
Yes, and it is scoped differently: photographs before disturbance, damage separated from betterment, and written approvals throughout. See documenting repairs for insurance and survey.
Check the wording. Cover afloat does not automatically extend to a vessel stored ashore or under repair, and yards will generally want evidence of cover before a lift.
The agreed scope, the variation log with approvals, staged photographs, and a completed item list. That file is what a surveyor, an insurer or a future buyer will ask for.
Length, beam, loaded draft, displacement, hull material, propulsion, location, your work list and any dates you cannot move. Photographs if anything is damaged. The full list is on contact.
Message WhatsApp with position and condition. Stabilise first, scope later. See emergency haul-out.
Usually yes, with prior arrangement rather than a conversation at the gate. Yard access rules differ and are confirmed at booking.
It depends on the facility and on whether hot work is scheduled. It is settled at booking, because a boat that arrives assuming it is permitted has an accommodation problem the same evening.
That is why the condition record exists: photographs at lift, at each hold point, and at launch. Yard liability cover is not a substitute for the owner's own cover, and cover afloat rarely extends to a vessel ashore or under repair.
Work stops at the nearest hold point, the vessel is left in a safe and defined state, and the account is reconciled against completed items. Stopping mid-phase — mid-coating in particular — costs more than finishing the phase.