Charter conversion
Placed into managed charter, a professionally run phinisi returns an indicative 6–14% net a year. Vessels of this class charter at USD 1,800 to 30,000 per yacht per night. Both figures come from the group that operates the fleet.
Quick answer
Indicative net yields for professionally managed vessels run around 6–14% a year. That is indicative only and never guaranteed, and a written projection with a downside case is prepared per owner rather than published as a table.
Not a forecast, and not investment advice
Charter income depends on the vessel, the season, the region and the operator, and it can be nil. Nothing here is a projection you should plan against — the desk prepares a written projection with a downside case for a specific hull, and that document is the only one worth acting on. The previous version of this page published a five-year yield table rising to 29% a year. It had no source and it is retired.
The two real numbers
These are the only charter figures on this page with a source behind them.
Per yacht per night
Per yacht per night
Professionally managed, per year
With a downside case
A vessel with an empty calendar earns nothing
Yields are indicative only and never guaranteed. A written projection with a downside case is prepared per owner.
What moves the number
A 16-cabin hull and an 8-cabin hull cannot earn the same money, and no management structure closes that gap. Before any projection is worth reading, the vessel has to be able to carry the guests and stay out long enough to serve them.
That is why this page points at specifications rather than at a five-year table. The old version modelled a 45-metre vessel at USD 3.0M of capital that does not exist on our book, then compounded it to a 29% yield. Every number in it was downstream of a hull nobody could buy.
Three levels of involvement
Commercial terms for each are quoted per owner against a named vessel. The revenue splits the old page published — 60/40, 80/20, and a 10–15% commission — had no source and were retired.
Before she can earn
A hull cannot charter in Indonesia because you would like it to. These are the conditions.
A foreign-flag yacht cannot operate in-country charter. The vessel flies the Indonesian flag, which means an Indonesian entity owns it.
See /indonesia-yacht-permit/
The Indonesian entity that holds the flag for a foreign principal. The maritime-sector capital requirement is IDR 10 billion, roughly USD 650,000.
See /pma-setup-indonesia/
Surat Izin Usaha Perusahaan Angkutan Laut, held at company level, to carry guests commercially by sea.
Ministry of Transportation
Crew certified under Indonesian maritime regulation, with basic safety training current. Certification currency is checked at survey rather than assumed.
See /phinisi-crew-hire/
Safety certificate and tonnage certificate current, and a clean independent survey. These are what let an insurer price the vessel at all.
Ministry of Transportation
Charged per guest and administered per region. Confirm the current schedule before each season.
Per region, per guest
The ownership structure is the long lead item and the expensive one — see the PMA page for the capital requirement, which is larger than four of the five vessels on the book.
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Written projection
Pick a hull and the desk prepares a written projection against it — with the downside modelled, not just the upside. That document is worth more than any table a website can publish.
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