A commercial phinisi in Indonesia sails under certificated officers: the captain and deck officers hold ANT tickets (Ahli Nautika Tingkat — nautical competency grades), engineers hold ATT tickets (Ahli Teknika…
Every working phinisi comes out of the water roughly every 12 to 24 months for a haul-out: a scheduled docking during which the hull is surveyed, seams are inspected and…
Ulin (Eusideroxylon zwageri, Borneo ironwood) is dense enough to sink in water — air-dry densities run roughly 960 to 1,140 kg/m³ — and it is the timber phinisi builders reserve…
The pinisi rig — two masts, seven sails, standing gaffs — is younger than most people assume: it took shape in the 19th century, when Konjo, Bugis and Makassar shipwrights…
Tana Beru, on the Bulukumba coast of South Sulawesi, builds phinisi in the open: hulls stand directly on the beach at every stage from bare keel to launch-ready ship, and…
Phinisi are built shell-first: the keel is laid, the hull planking is raised plank by plank, and only then are the internal frames fitted into the finished shell as reinforcement.…
A panrita lopi is the master shipwright who leads the construction of a phinisi — the person who sets the keel dimensions, directs every plank, and carries the whole design…
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