Saraina Koat Mentawai literally means ‘Mentawai Wave Family’, in Mentawai language. SKM is a grass roots, family owned , and operated company, which has been exploring the Mentawai since 1.997, and surfing the beautiful, and remote West Sumatran Islands, in search of the best an, most uncrowded waves on earth. SKM prides it self in providing our guests with the most experienced, comfortable, safest, and affordable priced surf charters available. Year after year, SKM has delivered an unparalleled experience to our guests, continue to do so, and into the future. We strive for excellence, and have only learned more, and gotten better at what we do with each passing year.

SKM, more than any other surf tourism company, has helped the Native Mentawai People, and the local Mentawai Government, with programs like Wave of Compassion, helping to organize Timmy Turner’s Tsunami Diary trips, helping the Mentawai people after the September 2007 earthquakes, with emergency food, and camping gear for villages in 3 different regions of the islands, by sponsoring, and organizing local surf contests for Indonesian youths, donating to the Native Mentawai students association for their various community projects, and by employing more native Mentawai people than all other tourism operators in the region combined, at our Kandui Resort, and Kandui Beach Villas project. Thanks for your support!

There are a few local boat options to choose from but none of them are even remotely close to the service and quality SKM offers to our guests. If you’re looking for the best surf charter trips available any where in the world-you have found it!

Aileoita is a 70′ × 15′ custom built hard wood boat. The Aileoita is outfitted with all the amenities of home including full air conditioning, LED TV, Play Station 3, hard drive with hundreds of movies and surf videos, iPod ready amplifier, fridge, freezer, radar, depth sounder, GPS, VHF/HF radio, 2 × 220V 20 kVA generators, life jackets, flares, EPIRB, 20 persons life raft, first aid kit, tender and outboard, living room with sofas, and indoor dinning room table, 3 shaded spacious out door hang out areas including front deck, the back deck with benches, and tables, and the upper deck, with a large out door dining table, and wrap around benches.

Accommodation on board is in five private twin share cabins. Six of ten large beds are wide enough to comfortably accommodate a couple, and the other four beds are large enough to accommodate large surfers. The maximum surfers allowed on board is 10 people.

Aileoita 1, has a cruising speed of 9 – 11 knots and is powered by two 180 HP Mitsubishi engines perfectly suited to attain its optimal hull speed. 2 engines = much greater safety at sea, as well as increased speed, but also higher fuel costs. When looking into different boats for your next Mentawai vacation, and how they are priced, please keep in mind that Aileoita 1, is competitively priced with several single engine boats, despite it’s higher fuel consumption.

The Aileoita has an immense back deck with wrap around benches and a roof, which also has wrap around benches, and a big out door dining table, which is great for a nice dinner with your friends, hanging out, and waiting for a bite on the trolling gear. The runabout is a 17′ fiberglass tender with 40 HP outboard engine, and 25 HP back up engine.

The highly experienced crew on the Aileoita, with over 68 years of experience operating in Mentawai between them, includes the captain, a mechanic, an incredible chef (Edi), one deck hand, a highly experienced surf guide / professional photographer who knows the surf spots, wind directions, swell directions, and secret spots like the back of his hand.

Standard Trip: The standard trip duration includes 11 days of surfing – 12 nights on the boat overall, but longer, or shorter packages are available upon request, as well as Surf Charter Boat / Kandui Villas custom combo packages.