Crew & Provisioning
On the Banda Sea leg a yacht can be two to four days from a hospital that can operate. Aircraft only help if someone has already worked out where they land, who pays, and which hospital accepts the patient.
No one can guarantee a medical evacuation from the Banda Sea — be wary of anyone who says otherwise.
Before you sail
All of it forward-looking. If you are dealing with an incident right now, message the desk and mark it urgent.
Crew medicals, guest health declarations and dive-fitness reviews with licensed doctors, scheduled around your refit window. The kit goes line by line: expiry sweep, oxygen and AED consumables, trauma module, IV fluids, splints, and a prescription module built for your route.
Enrolment with an international maritime provider, medical summaries pre-registered for everyone aboard, and the link actually tested — a live video call over your satellite system from the berth, not a brochure promise. The captain gets a one-page escalation card.
Route-specific and written for the captain: which airstrips are reachable from each segment, which take scheduled flights and which need a chartered aircraft with daylight on your side, which harbours have real road access to a hospital, and your insurer's guarantee-of-payment process verified against the actual policy.
Run one telemedicine drill before you clear Bali. It takes twenty minutes and exposes most of the gaps.
Working figures
Planning ranges from current provider quotes. Your numbers depend on crew size, route length and the state of your existing kit.
For context on why the insurance verification step matters: an actual air evacuation from eastern Indonesia to Singapore or Darwin is commonly quoted between USD 30,000 and 120,000 or more. Confirming in advance that your policy responds costs a phone call. Discovering the answer mid-incident costs days.
Crew medical referrals ashore in Bali
How it is arranged
The medical network behind this already runs daily on land: doctors' visits, screening appointments, pharmacy coordination, and the assistance-company and repatriation side.
What the yacht desk adds is the maritime layer — your itinerary and daily positions, your tender and davit realities, agent contacts in Labuan Bajo, Ambon and Sorong, and the judgment calls a captain faces when the nearest strip is six hours away by sea. Medical details about individuals go only to the treating doctor, never into our booking files.
Galley-ready chefs, briefed on your preference sheets.
One full load-out in Bali, then staged top-ups east.
Recruitment, vetting and work authorisation that survives inspection.
Crew changes, transport, laundry and a number answered at 03:00.
Send your route and dates and the desk returns a readiness scope and a written quote, usually within one working day — so you sail for the Banda Sea with the medical questions already answered.
