Liveaboard voyages · Eastern Indonesia

Come sailing with the familia

Hand-built phinisi, a crew who mostly grew up on these reefs, sailing out of Labuan Bajo since 2018. Reserve a single cabin — or take the whole boat.

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2018

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Everything we sail, on one page

Every itinerary across the fleet. Filter it down, or read the whole list — it is short on purpose.

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Full departure calendar

No scheduled departures right now. New dates are added through the season — or ask about a private charter on your own dates.

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The fleet

Our fleet, built in Bira

Every hull came out of the same yard in South Sulawesi, from the same family of Konjo shipwrights. They differ in size, not in how they were made.

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By the cabin, or the whole boat

Two ways to sail with us, and the only real difference is who else is at dinner.

Open trip

A scheduled departure. You reserve one cabin and share the boat with up to fifteen others.

  • Priced per person, per cabin grade
  • Fixed dates and a published route
  • 25% deposit, balance 60 days out
  • No single supplement on solo berths
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Private charter

The whole boat, your dates, and an itinerary we draw with you rather than hand to you.

  • Priced per boat, per night
  • Any dates the boat is free
  • Route built around your group
  • A quote from a human within one working day
How charter works

Journal

Written on the boat, mostly

By the crew, the cook, the captain and the biologist who joins four crossings a season. Nobody here is a content producer.

Read the journal
“We booked one cabin and left feeling like we had been adopted. The crew remembered our daughter’s name before we remembered theirs.”
Marieke & Tom V. · Three Days Aboard Sea Familia 2 · October 2025
Safety
Oxygen and first-response kits on every deck, two liferafts, EPIRB and satellite phone. Crew drilled monthly, not annually.
Diving cover
DAN-affiliated evacuation cover on both boats. We ask for your policy number with the joining form, and we do check it.
Booking terms
Deposit fully refundable to 90 days. One free move to another departure in the same season, whatever the notice. Read the policy.
A person, not a bot
The office is two people in Labuan Bajo. They answer on WhatsApp within a few hours, and it is genuinely them. Contact us.