The boat deck by deck, figure by figure

Length 33 m. Beam 6.5 m. Built in 2023 in South Sulawesi. A crew of 8. These are the figures for the hull, and the rest of the page follows them deck by deck.

She is a modern-classic built phinisi, with a gross tonnage of 160 and two decks. Cruising speed is 8 to 15 knots. The engine is a Mitsubishi 8DC16, and the generator a Mitsubishi PS100 of 160 HP. She carries 9000 litres of fresh water and 4000 litres of fuel.

RAFFLES is painted on the hull, and the hero photograph shows two masts and two cabin decks. She began operating in April 2025. The builder, the hull material and the flag are on request, confirmed in writing before you pay.

Malacca I and Borneo are on the upper deck. Malacca II and Java are on the main deck. Malacca I and Malacca II are one master cabin each; Borneo and Java are two deluxe cabins each.

Each has a double bed, air conditioning, a sea view and an ensuite bathroom with a hot shower. Only the two Malacca cabins have a balcony. In the photograph of Malacca I a round white jacuzzi tub stands on the balcony platform beside a teak railing, with sea and green hills beyond. Malacca II shows a free-standing oval bathtub under two large windows facing the sea.

The bathroom photographs show marble-look wall tiles, a vessel basin and, in two pictures, a window over the water. Which bathroom belongs to which cabin is on request, and the cabins carry names, not numbers.

Six cabins with a double bed each make 12 beds. Two extra beds make 14, and 14 is the limit on every trip, on either card. The cabin for each extra bed is confirmed in writing before you pay.

We allocate the cabins. You tell us who sleeps with whom. A party of 2 takes one cabin, a party of 6 takes three, and a party of 12 fills all six. Children count in the bed plan, because a night aboard means every child needs somewhere to sleep.

Adjacent cabins, a chosen deck or a double made up as two singles are requests, not promises. Each one is answered in writing before you pay.

Aboard are a 50-person life raft, life buoys, a fire extinguisher and a flare gun. Life jackets are there for the snorkelling. Navigation is by compass, GPS, AIS and EPIRB, with a VHF radio and hand-held radios.

Alongside sits a speedboat, fibreglass, with a Yamaha 40 HP engine. No photograph of it is published, so we describe it by its figures alone. Inspection dates and certificates are on request, confirmed in writing before you pay.

Two figures tell you what the boat does between stops: a cruising speed of 8 to 15 knots, and tanks of 9000 litres of fresh water and 4000 litres of fuel. Those are planning figures, not a timetable. Each passage is the captain's decision, made on the day from the water ahead.