Fenides is a 41m five-cabin phinisi built 2019 for 10 guests. Raja Ampat yacht charters from $60,060 per week + expenses. Rates verified August 2026.
Fenides is a 41-metre motor-sailing phinisi built in 2019 by Konjo Boat Builders, sleeping 10 guests in five cabins with a crew of 11. She charters from $60,060 per week plus expenses — an intimate, keenly priced entry into Raja Ampat’s private phinisi class — cruising Indonesian waters with Raja Ampat itineraries in the October–April season. Rates verified August 2026.
| Length overall | 41 m | Beam | 7.7 m |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guests | 10 | Cabins | 5 (1 Master + 4) |
| Crew | 11 | Type | Phinisi (motor/sailer) |
| Builder | Konjo Boat Builders | Year | 2019 |
| Cruising speed | 9 knots | From-rate | $60,060 per week + expenses |
Fenides comes from serious lineage. Konjo Boat Builders — the same tradition of Sulawesi craftsmen behind celebrated charter phinisis such as Silolona and Dunia Baru — launched her in 2019, and it shows in the proportions: a slender 7.7-metre beam on a 41-metre hull, a shape drawn for the water rather than for the brochure. She is the phinisi idea at a more personal scale — five cabins instead of seven or nine, ten guests instead of fourteen, and a crew of eleven who learn everyone’s coffee order by the second morning.
That scale changes the texture of a charter week. Decisions happen over breakfast, not by committee. The master suite anchors a five-cabin plan (one master plus four), which fits two or three families, a couples’ trip or a small dive group without a single wasted berth. On deck, the essentials are done properly rather than multiplied: a sun deck for the day’s slow hours and an exterior bar that becomes the boat’s social centre at anchor — the place where the day’s manta footage gets replayed and tomorrow’s plan gets drawn on a napkin. Air-conditioned cabins and Wi-Fi throughout keep the comforts modern; at 9 knots she is also usefully quick for a phinisi, which buys extra time at anchorages on longer routes.
Boats at this scale live or die on crew culture and route judgement rather than square metres, which is why we pair her with full concierge planning: matching the itinerary to your group’s diving experience, timing the tide-gated sites correctly, and provisioning to actual preferences rather than a standard sheet. It is the working method refined across the Komodo Luxury network’s 800-plus voyages for guests from 45-plus countries, applied to a five-cabin boat where every detail is visible.
Fenides charters across South East Asia and Indonesia, with Raja Ampat weeks tracking the October–April prime season — the window when visibility, calm seas and manta aggregations align.
Split ten ways, her weekly rate makes a compelling case against shared liveaboard cabins — run the numbers with our Raja Ampat charter cost guide.
A first week aboard Fenides runs the northern loop: Sorong to the Dampier Strait for Cape Kri, Sardine Reef and Arborek, north via Penemu and Melissa’s Garden to the Piaynemo viewpoint, into Wayag’s lagoon labyrinth, and back through The Passage. Her cruising speed makes a 10–12-night combined route with Misool’s southern reefs particularly comfortable. Compare layouts and rates across the full Raja Ampat charter fleet before you fix dates.
Fenides’ northern routes put the Dampier Strait’s headline dives on the doorstep — Blue Magic, where oceanic mantas ride the current over a mid-channel seamount, Cape Kri’s record-setting species counts, and Manta Sandy’s regulated cleaning station. The wider region — the Bird’s Head Seascape — holds more than 1,700 recorded fish species and 550-plus corals, and the difference between reading that and seeing it is roughly one giant stride. Between dives: snorkelling straight off the swim platform, tender runs into hidden lagoons, village and viewpoint visits, and long unscheduled hours on the sunpads that guests later describe as the point of the whole trip.
Fenides boards her Raja Ampat guests at Sorong, the region’s gateway, served by Domine Eduard Osok Airport (SOQ) with direct Jakarta flights of about four hours and connections via Makassar, Manado and Bali. Sorong harbour is the usual embarkation point, with Waisai or southern Misool available for one-way routings. Her 9-knot cruising speed earns its keep from the first afternoon — the 53-nautical-mile run from Sorong to Arborek takes most of the fleet around eight hours, and every fraction of a knot saved is another hour at anchor inside the Dampier Strait. Flights, airport pickup, marine park permits and boarding timing are all arranged by our concierge team before you land.
In the wider season she supports the extension routes that reward smaller, quicker phinisis: Triton Bay and Kaimana, two sailing days beyond Misool in the October–April window, and repositioning-style crossings through the Banda Sea when the September–November weather serves.
From $60,060 per week plus expenses, verified August 2026. Expenses — fuel, provisioning, park fees — are confirmed per itinerary, and festive weeks typically add a 10–20% market premium.
Five: a master suite plus four further cabins, sleeping ten guests, with eleven crew — better than one crew member per guest.
Konjo Boat Builders of Sulawesi delivered her in 2019 — the same boat-building lineage credited with Silolona and Dunia Baru.
She is arguably the format’s best case: two or three couples or a pair of families fill her completely, so the boat, crew and itinerary revolve entirely around one small group.
Fenides is available through our concierge desk, operated by Komodo Luxury since 2015, with end-to-end handling from Sorong airport pickup through marine park permits, provisioning, dive guides and documentation. WhatsApp +62 811-3823-875 or email sales@komodoluxury.com with your dates and party size for availability and a draft route. Need twelve berths instead of ten? See Samsara Samudra in the neighbouring band.
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