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Not many people know, if the ship was phinisi wooden boats being built and designed in a remote village in the district TANAHBERU, Bontobahari, Bulukumba, or about 200 km north of Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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now no longer ship the goods but has become a tourist ship and both became seizure number of entrepreneurs in the world that move the field of marine tourism, and restaurants.
Unique vessel was made of iron wood (ironwood) and identity and the spectacle of citizen concern to the capital and even foreign tourists when visiting the port of Sunda Kelapa, North Jakarta (Jakut).
Although the same shape with hundreds of timber ships are loading and unloading of goods but "KLM Pearl" (a ship), do not do the activity because the ship was designed specifically for tourism in the destination country.
"It was this ship, not for loading of goods but to prepare for deployment to the Caribbean," said skipper KLM Pearl, M Tabri.
One of the Caribbean region in South America or the West Indies which is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. The islands stretching southward from the bottom of Florida to the northwest of Venezuela in South America.
At least from around 7000 islands, small islands, reefs and other islands grouped into 25 territories including sovereign states, and other administrative areas.
Caribbean itself consists of the Great Antilles and Lesser Antilles and parts of North America is also famous pirate.
Tabri explains, phinisi ships ordered by the businessmen from the United States (U.S.), to be used as a floating restaurant ship in that country.
The presence of vessels in the port of Sunda Kelapa phinisi before heading to destination countries, also to the sea at the port of Gresik, East Java and then to Semarang as a testing ground shipping activities that will take hundreds of thousands kelometer toward the Caribbean.
"We are remaining waiting for word 'boss', when this ship I berangkatkan to destination countries," said Tarbi.
Vessels weighing 400 gross tons (GT) it before, starting from Bulukumba regency, South Sulawesi, a place where the ship was built and assembled in accordance with the order.
The process of making this boat, long enough that is almost one year to involve as many as 11 workers who are skilled enough, said Assistant Nakoda KLM Pearl, Syamsul.
Ships with 40 meters long, nine meters wide, high pile of body leads to over 12 feet long with seven decorated screen will be dispatched in time is not long.
The uniqueness of the ship without a room, specially designed to resemble a restaurant in which there are only a carving table, antique chairs made of teak wood which is ordered from artisans in Jepara, Central Java.
"All the tertempal completeness in this boat just filled in the form of antique handmade products from a number of areas in the country," he said.
Interestingly phinisi floating vessel which berpaduan between black opaque beige combination, in front of the bridge, there is a statue of a beautiful Indian girl who carved image and custom craftsmen from Bali.
Phinisi shipbuilders process in a fishing village in Bulukumba, nothing special because digukanan very simple equipment.
But do not be denied, if the ship was the result of their work was successful and ready to sail the Indian Ocean and even sailed to Madagascar.
"There is no special school for shipbuilding activities. This we do because this is a hereditary from my grandfather, father to the children and grandchildren participate in the workforce in accordance with the orders to build ships," said a crew who took part in the shipbuilding process, Hery .
Ships the work in that area, not the first time but has already generated tens or even hundreds of units made with different sizes in accordance with the order of the destination countries such as Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore.
Several years ago there was Malaysian businessman ordered the ship like this, also to be one of the floating hotels and restaurants in the country, he said.
Designed and constructed to produce a ship worth quite expensive depending on the amount of raw materials and manufacturing techniques.
"The price of such ships Pearl KLM group should this value could reach 2 billion to more than Rp3 billion depending on the shape and uniqueness of the ship" said Tabri.
Ships are made without the need to 'blueprint' or other complex scale count even most equipment was still traditional, but the results can not be doubted.
"That sometimes makes it delays the creation of a ship are the raw materials imported from outside the region such as Papua, and Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi," he said.
This unique shipbuilding sometimes must first create the outer wall of vessel first, then create a frame inside. Ships phinisi not simply narcissism Bugis-Makassar and subetnisnya, but is passion Archipelago.
Without mentioning how much power the travel speed of the vessel in one hour, but according to M Tabri, specially designed ships that consumer demand will start from Sunda Kelapa to Batam, and then onwards into the port of Singapore International.
In Singapore, the ship will be docked for a few days later to continue shipping to other countries in Asia and Europe.
"The owner of the vessel does not give us a target date to have arrived in the Caribbean, because the voyage as it is now uncertain weather conditions so it will be difficult to predict arrival in the destination country," he said.
However, in every country who are required to be anchored impassable for several days. The goal is in addition to promotion at the same time also looking for some souvenirs and antiques products produced country,
