How Bali yards, hardstands and slipways actually operate — access and draft, blocking and shoring, safety and hot work, and moving a vessel between facilities.
Serangan is Bali’s second working cluster and the practical home of much of the island’s small-craft maintenance — dive boats, day boats, fast boats and traditional craft. Its defining constraint is water: approaches and […]
Hardstand for anything staying ashore more than a few days, and for any job needing access all round the hull; slipway for heavy displacement, long keels and timber vessels that should be supported along
Move a vessel between yards only when the reason is structural — the lift is in one place and the capability is in another, or the current facility genuinely cannot absorb the scope. Every
Boats on hardstands burn more often than boats afloat, and hot work is the usual cause. The controls that prevent it are unglamorous and inexpensive: a written hot-work permit, a dedicated fire watch during
Benoa is Bali’s principal harbour and the densest concentration of marine trades on the island, which is its main advantage: fabrication, electrical, engine service, refrigeration and freight clearance sit within a short radius. Its