Sea Bear is a 40m Westport motor yacht, refitted 2025, for 10 guests. Raja Ampat charters from $95,000 per week + expenses. Rates verified August 2026.
Sea Bear is a 40-metre Westport motor yacht for 10 guests, refitted in 2025 and chartering Raja Ampat from $95,000 per week plus expenses. She is the rarer proposition in these waters — a pedigree American-built motor yacht amid a fleet of sailing phinisis — with Raja Ampat itineraries running the October–April prime season. Rates verified August 2026.
| Length overall | 40 m | Guests | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Motor yacht | Builder | Westport Yachts |
| Year | 2005, refit 2025 | Cabin plan | Confirmed on request |
| From-rate | $95,000 per week + expenses | ||
Most boats in Raja Ampat wear ironwood and canvas. Sea Bear arrives in a different uniform. Built by Westport — the Washington State yard whose hulls have long been a byword for reliable, owner-proven American motor yachts — she brings conditioned interiors, motor-yacht stability and a 2025 refit to an archipelago where such vessels remain genuinely scarce. For charterers who love the destination but want the familiar grammar of a classic superyacht — rather than the phinisi’s tall-ship romance — she is one of very few answers on the water.
The 2025 refit matters more than the 2005 launch date. It makes her, in guest-facing terms, one of the most recently renewed vessels in the Raja Ampat fleet: a two-decade pedigree hull with this year’s finish. Ten guests keep the manifest intimate — the scale of a family or two couples’ circles rather than a floating party — and her cabin plan is confirmed on request when our concierge team matches layout to your group. As a motor yacht she holds schedule independent of wind, which in an archipelago of tide-gated channels and long transits is a quiet, compounding luxury: more anchorages reached, more slack-tide dive windows made.
A motor yacht in remote Papua also depends on shoreside support in a way Mediterranean charters never do — fuel planning, provisioning runs, permit sequencing and tide-timed dive logistics all have to be arranged from outside the boat. Our desk handles that layer through the Komodo Luxury network, which has supported 800-plus voyages for guests from more than 45 countries across a 30-plus-vessel partner fleet, so Sea Bear’s crew can spend their attention where guests can see it.
Sea Bear’s Raja Ampat availability tracks the region’s October–April prime season, when the Dampier Strait, Fam group and Misool all sit inside comfortable cruising weather.
For the full arithmetic — base rate, expenses, permits, gratuities — see the Raja Ampat yacht charter cost guide.
A seven-night Sea Bear charter covers the northern loop with time to spare: Sorong across the Dampier Strait for Arborek and Cape Kri, north through Penemu’s Melissa’s Garden and the Piaynemo boardwalk, into the Wayag lagoons, returning via The Passage. Her motoring range also suits an ambitious 10–12-night combination with the southern Misool loop, holding the schedule even when winds do not cooperate. See how she compares across the Raja Ampat charter fleet.
Raja Ampat’s reputation rests on numbers no other reef system matches — 1,700-plus fish species and more than 550 corals recorded across the Bird’s Head Seascape — and the northern circuit delivers them densely: Cape Kri’s swirling trevally and snapper schools, Blue Magic’s oceanic mantas, the hard-coral plateau of Melissa’s Garden. Sea Bear’s tenders run divers to the sites on slack-tide timing while the yacht holds comfortable anchorage; snorkellers work the same reefs from the surface, and afternoons rotate through lagoon exploration, village calls at Arborek and viewpoint climbs. Evenings belong to the aft deck and the day’s footage.
Sea Bear’s charters stage from Sorong, gateway to Raja Ampat, via Domine Eduard Osok Airport (SOQ) — around four hours direct from Jakarta, with routings through Makassar, Manado or Bali. Guests typically board at Sorong harbour; Waisai and southern Misool embarkations can be arranged where the itinerary calls for it. The geography rewards her format: Sorong to Arborek is roughly 53 nautical miles — an eight-hour run for much of the traditional fleet — and a motor yacht’s ability to hold pace and schedule turns that opening leg into a predictable, comfortable afternoon rather than a variable. As with every vessel we represent, the concierge team coordinates flights, airport pickup, permits and provisioning before arrival, so the first day aboard is spent settling in, not solving logistics.
Across the wider season, her range supports Raja Ampat’s extension geography — Triton Bay and Kaimana, two sailing days beyond Misool in the October–April window — for charterers who want water almost nobody else reaches.
From $95,000 per week plus expenses, verified August 2026. Expenses cover fuel, provisioning and park fees, itemised per itinerary; festive-season weeks typically add 10–20% across the market.
She is a Westport-built motor yacht — stabilised, engine-driven and freshly refitted in 2025 — where most Raja Ampat charter vessels are traditional wooden sailing phinisis. Different aesthetic, same archipelago.
Ten guests, with the cabin configuration confirmed on request when we match the layout to your group at enquiry.
For the October–April prime season, enquire 9–12 months ahead — motor-yacht options in Raja Ampat are few, so her calendar concentrates demand.
Sea Bear is booked through our concierge desk, operated by Komodo Luxury — part of Juara Holding Group, since 2015 — which manages the journey end-to-end: Sorong airport pickup, marine park permits, provisioning, dive guides and documentation. WhatsApp +62 811-3823-875 or email sales@komodoluxury.com with your dates and group size for availability, current rates and a draft itinerary. Prefer traditional sail in the same price band? Mutiara Laut is the natural counterpart.
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