Splendour

The voyage

Three flat decks across twenty metres, drawn from 1920s American pleasure yachts.

Splendour was built on the shore at Ara Beach in South Sulawesi, where Indonesian boatbuilding started, and she is the only vessel in this fleet that came from a drawing of what we actually wanted rather than from a broker's list. Her lines come from the American pleasure yachts of the 1920s, which were designed for cruising rather than racing, and it shows in the proportions: three flat decks across twenty metres, so a family of nine has three separate places to be instead of one crowded one. Three cabins, contemporary interiors, warm materials that handle salt and bare feet. Her water is Komodo National Park, and the itinerary is built around slow days rather than a checklist: Sebayur in the morning, the sandbank for lunch, Shot Gun when the current is right. Everything aboard is there because someone decided it should be. Nothing is there because it looked good in a brochure.

Sleeps: 6 guests
Cabins: 3
Length: 20m
From: IDR 42,390,000

Cabins and facilities

Spaces

A 20 metre yacht in ironwood and teak, built in Sulawesi in 2018 on the lines of a 1920s American cruiser. Three decks, three cabins, six crew, and batteries so the nights stay silent. Here is how she is arranged.

The Cabins

Three cabins, and the stars

A master cabin in the bow with its own bathroom. Two cocoon cabins behind it, compact by design, one bathroom shared between them. All air conditioned. The back lounge makes up as an open bed for two who would rather sleep under the stars.

Upper Deck

Nothing between you and the horizon

Most of the top deck lives under a shade sail: deckchairs, loungers, beanbags, a table and, improbably, a garden. By day it is where the sun is. By night it is wherever the evening decides to go.

Saloon & Lounge

Inside, outside, hard to say which

One open plan deck where the kitchen bar, the dining saloon and the back lounge run into each other without a door in sight. A front lounge for the quiet ones. Two speakers for the rest.

Dining on Board

From the galley

A chef and an open kitchen bar, so dinner is watched as much as waited for. Breakfast when you surface, lunch at anchor, dinner on the deck with the lights down and the stars up. The butler keeps the glasses from emptying.

Quiet Nights

The generator sleeps too

Batteries run the boat after dark, so the machinery goes quiet and stays that way. No hum under the bunk, no diesel on the breeze. What you hear at anchor is water on the hull and not much else.

Swim Deck & Water Toys

Out, and back

A swim deck at the waterline with a freshwater shower waiting. Eight snorkel sets, a double paddleboard, two wakeboards and two surfboards. A tender for eight with 40 horsepower to run you to the reef and, eventually, back.

Beachside Escapes

Lunch, moved ashore

There is a picnic set on board for a reason. The tender drops you on an empty beach, the crew unpacks lunch, and a barbecue follows when the mood calls for it. No other guests. No closing time.

Aboard

Everything, taken care of

Full crew & private chef
Diving & snorkelling
Paddleboards & kayaks
Sun decks & shaded lounging
Bespoke, unhurried itineraries
Dining, however you like it

Where it sails

Indonesia's finest waters

Komodo National Park
Raja Ampat
Flores & Labuan Bajo
Banda & the Spice Islands

Routes are planned with our concierge around the season, the winds, and what you'd like the days to hold — from Komodo's dragons and manta channels to the reefs of Raja Ampat.

The sea, at the pace you set.