Grand Maloekoe is a 30m Halter Marine motor yacht for 12 guests, refitted 2021. Raja Ampat charter rates, seasons, itinerary and diving guide.
Grand Maloekoe is a 30-metre motor yacht for up to 12 guests, built by Halter Marine in 1998, comprehensively refitted in 2021, and chartering in Raja Ampat on a price-on-application basis. She is the working-pedigree option in our 30-metre bracket — a shipyard-built motor vessel turned expedition charter yacht, sized for family groups and dive parties of twelve. Published rates in her class on our Raja Ampat charter list run from $21,000 to $90,000 per week plus expenses.
| Length overall | 30.0 m |
|---|---|
| Guests | 12 |
| Type | Motor yacht |
| Builder | Halter Marine |
| Year | 1998 (refit 2021) |
| Weekly rate | Price on application |
Every fleet needs one yacht that was built by people who expected her to work for a living. Grand Maloekoe came out of Halter Marine — an American shipyard better known for rugged commercial craft than for gin palaces — in 1998, which makes her the only hull in our 30-metre bracket launched before the 2010s phinisi wave. That is not a liability; it is her argument. Vessels from working yards are engineered with margins that leisure builds rarely bother with, and a 2021 refit layered current charter comfort over that original seriousness. The name completes the picture: Maloekoe is the old spelling of Maluku, the spice islands whose trade routes wrote the first charts of these waters.
As a motor yacht among sailers, she trades romance of rig for something Raja Ampat charters quietly prize: schedule certainty. No wind windows, no sail-handling pauses — when the group decides to be at the Fam Islands by morning, the only variable is what time you finish dinner. For twelve guests on a one-week or ten-day clock, that reliability compounds into an extra dive here, a longer lagoon afternoon there, and an itinerary that arrives where it promised, when it promised.
Grand Maloekoe charters within the partner fleet network coordinated by Komodo Luxury, established 2015 — more than 800 voyages planned across the network, guests from 45-plus countries — with every charter built end-to-end from Bali: Sorong airport pickup, marine park permits, provisioning for twelve, and dive guiding confirmed before boarding.
Her rate is on application, quoted to your dates, route and provisioning. For orientation, published weekly rates in the 30–31 metre bracket of our Raja Ampat list span $21,000 to $90,000 per week plus expenses — rates verified August 2026. Expenses typically cover fuel, marine park and village fees, and premium provisioning, itemised at booking. Raja Ampat’s prime window is October to April; December–March carries a 10–20% premium and the festive weeks book first. Like much of the fleet, vessels in her class commonly rotate toward Komodo for May–October, concentrating Raja Ampat availability into the prime months — for peak dates, start the conversation 9–12 months out. The complete pricing breakdown lives in our Raja Ampat charter cost guide.
Her reliability makes her a strong platform for the more ambitious southern programme: a 7-night Misool circuit from Sorong, spending the core days among Balbulol’s spires, the Daram islets, Wayil’s hidden lagoons and the Magic Mountain–Boo Windows dive axis, with the motor-yacht advantage absorbing the longer southern passages without eating your mornings. The day-by-day version is on our southern loop itinerary. Groups with 10–12 nights can run the combined crossing — Misool’s south plus the Dampier Strait’s big-animal sites in the north — which is Raja Ampat’s full argument in a single charter. Shorter charters flip to the classic northern week: Arborek, Cape Kri, the Fam gardens and the Piaynemo lookout.
Logistics are straightforward for a group this size: everyone flies into Sorong (SOQ) — about four hours from Jakarta, or via Makassar, Manado or Bali — where our team meets arrivals, consolidates the group and delivers you to the yacht at Sorong harbour. Staggered arrival times are normal for twelve travellers, and the concierge desk sequences pickups so nobody waits.
Raja Ampat anchors the Bird’s Head Seascape, where scientific surveys have recorded more than 1,700 fish species and 550 coral species — and a twelve-guest motor yacht is a genuinely practical dive platform for it. Southern legs headline with Magic Mountain’s manta traffic and Boo Windows’ arches; northern legs bring the manta cleaning stations and Cape Kri, the Dampier Strait site famous for one of the highest fish counts ever recorded on a single dive. Twelve guests rarely means twelve divers: while one tender runs the morning dive, the rest of the group snorkels the house reef, visits Arborek village, paddles a lagoon or holds down the shaded deck with a book. Marine park entry (the PIN card, currently around IDR 700,000–1,000,000 per person per year — confirmed at booking) is arranged for the whole group in advance.
The launch year tells you her bones; the 2021 refit tells you her condition. Shipyard-built hulls from working yards age well by design, and the refit renewed the guest-facing experience. Age-of-hull questions are exactly what our concierge desk answers candidly, with current photos and specifications, before you commit.
Phinisi offer the iconic silhouette and sailing romance; a motor yacht offers schedule certainty and steady passage-making. If your priority is maximising time at dive sites and lagoons across a fixed week, the motor format is the pragmatic choice. For the expedition-vessel philosophy taken further, see Kudanil Explorer, the 50-metre expedition yacht on our list.
Price on application — quotes are built to your dates and route. Her 30-metre class on our list publishes rates from $21,000 to $90,000 per week plus expenses (verified August 2026), and your itemised quote will land with every line visible.
October to April is the season; for December–March peak dates, open the conversation 9–12 months ahead. Shoulder weeks in October–November and March–April combine prime conditions with easier calendars.
Send our concierge desk your dates and group size and we will confirm availability, quote your route, and handle everything from Sorong pickup to the last park fee. WhatsApp +62 811-3823-875 or email sales@komodoluxury.com — plan my charter.
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