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Tana Lemo, Village of The Masters of Pinisi Shipbuilders

Bugis and Makassar sailors exploring centuries-archipelago. With sailboats and simple navigation tools, based at the sun, the stars in the sky, even the smell of the mainland, they use wind to sail to Madagascar, near Africa, looking for sea cucumbers in Australia, long before the British sailor James Cook discovered the continent in 1770. (more…)

Boat Craft Center Pinisi in Tana Beru

Pinisi Boat Craft Center is located in Tana Beru Village, District Bontobahari, Bulukumba regency, South Sulawesi Province.
Tana Beru as Pinisi Boat Craft Center is located approximately 176 kilometers from Makassar or 23 kilometers from the City Bulukumba. Travel from city to Tana Beru Bulukumba can be reached by using a private car or public transportation in the form of pete-pete (microbus). (more…)

Indonesian Phinisi Ship Desain and the Building Steps

Most Indonesian know Pinisi Sailing ship is their heritage, but they don’t know the detile about Phinisi Design. Building an Indonesian wooden vessel is a unique sort of adventure.  It is not unusual for someone to surf the web, see the Indonesian ship designs we have created, note their excellent qualities, print a few images off the web show the builders and ask them “can you build one like this…?”  This has occurred several times and those events have been duly noted.

Phinisi Profile skecht – Pinisi ship design by Expert phinisi designer Michael Kasten

The next crazy step is for someone to order ‘Study Plans’ and attempt to do the same.  I’d venture to say that the result will possibly be better than if they had made a drawing in the sand (as is also very common), but nowhere near the calibre of vessel that could have been. (more…)

Production Industry of the Pinisi Boat

The Unique Pattern of Work Relations in the Production Industry of the Pinisi Boat

The system of the Manpower Recruitment in Buiding Phinisi Boat

The manpower recruitment in the production of the boat Pinisi started from the recruitment ponggawa by the boat businessman (the skipper) that his characteristics were temporary, because of the association of the work between the businessman and Ponggawa only had a contract nature, that is work relations that were limited to the work period.

Inside Phinisi Ship hull show the strong hull frame from strongest wood in the world, Photographer Aryo Wingsanggeni

The recruitment ponggawa or the head of the trade person by the boat businessman was based by the criterion:

  1. The capacity in making the boat,
  2. The capacity in completing the work well and neatly,
  3. The capacity in completing the right on time boat
  4. The capacity led the working group as well as
  5. The Magic capacity.

Apart from the capacity that it was mentioned above not somewhat also the case of the recruitment ponggawa because of the emotional nearness factor, like often not him co-operated with the businessman who will recruit him as well as the existence of familial relations around them (ponggawa with the boat businessman or the skipper). (more…)

Phinisi Schooner Ship – The Legends of Indonesia Sailing Ship

”Kapal Phinisi”  The Legends, The Pride of Indonesia and The Forgotten

Perhaps many of the Squire who still remember about a sailing ship made of wood and named Phinisi Archipelago. This ship has a name that is legendary and almost all sailors in this country knows this name. Phinisi Nusantara has indeed been noted as successful historic voyage across the Pacific Ocean to get to Vancouver, Canada.

Cool Phinisi type yacht – blue sailing screen on the blue ocean under blue sky

This notorious oceans conquered by a ship made of wood, Phinisi Archipelago. Although initially the mission of this spectacular cruise doubt many people, but Capt. Ardjakusuma Gita along with 11 people crew managed to accomplish this task properly. Obstacles on the path to the notoriously dangerous voyage in the Pacific Ocean can be overcome by good until Phinisi Nusantara safely docked in (more…)