The Oasis is a Mentawai classic, fully renovated and rebuilt for 2024 season. The new management brings many decades of Mentawai charter experience along with proven, captain and crew. Oasis offers the optimal combination of great value with prices based on Australian Dollars and good size, standard charters can take 10 surfers but can go to 12 if needed. The 80 foot Oasis has 6 roomy twin air-conditioned bedrooms, spacious air-conditioned lounge rooms with entertainment system, outdoor areas, board storage and fast tender.
What we love
Fully renovated and rebuilt for 2024 Season.
Under new management from some of the most experienced operators in Mentawai.
Great value 12- and 9-night charters with 6 spacious air-conditioned cabins.
Massive covered outdoor area for al-fresco dining and loads of board storage.
What you love
A very professional and seamless experience booking a boat trip to the Ments.
From the moment I enquired, through the booking and payment stage, and right up to boarding the boat, their customer service was personal and first class. A group of us spent 10 days on the Oasis – being March it meant weather and wind was a factor, but our brilliant surf guide Daniel and the local crew aboard were amazing in maximizing our quality wave count. Food was even better than the epic days spent at Macaronis and HTs!
Surfing Highlights
Hollow Trees
One of the world’s greatest right barrels, HT’s has been all over the surf mags and videos over the last decade. The main takeoff spot is up the point where most of the waves start barrelling and peel flawlessly down the reef. On larger swells it can be very shifty and hard to read. It can shift more to the end bowl where it can break, reform, then bowl again into the channel. The inside is very shallow and is often referred to as the “surgeon’s table” due to the many reef-cuts doled out to travelling surfers.
Lance’s Left
This left-hander is a consistent and frequently surfed crowd-pleaser. Lance’s Left has the ability to hold big swells and can offer up rippable walls and some little tube sections. It can also handle an onshore wind and still have fun waves. Facing Southwest makes this spot very consistent however its nature become more serious when there’s a large swell running.
Bintangs
A short and hollow right across the channel from Lance’s Left. As the wave approaches the reef, the bottom drops out before barreling towards the channel. When conditions are prime, Bintangs delivers amazing, round barrels and extremely fun, rippable walls. A major advantage of Bintangs is that on the days when the dreaded North wind blows out most spots in the Mentawais, Bintangs is offshore and pumping.
Cobras
A short distance up the reef from Lance’s Left, you will find this intense left-hander. It gets really shallow on the low tide and prefers a bit more water. Due to the shallowness it is normally relatively uncrowded. On a South swell and East wind it is a non-stop barrel from the takeoff all the way to the channel where the wave spits you out. Therefore appropriately named, The Cobra.
Macaronis
One of the most perfect waves in the world. A very hollow wave with many shallow spots. Lefts start from way up the point, then gradually slow down as it approaches the channel. The further up the point you paddle, the faster it barrels when you take off. After the initial barrel ride, this wave offers one of the most rippable walls for any maneuvers you can think of.
Greenbush
One of the most amazing waves to surf in the southern Mentawai region. Macas may be the most predictable and most fun wave to surf, while Greenbush has become known as one of the most mesmerizing and hair raising. The tube is very open and on the correct swell direction all three sections link up and it is very make-able.
Telescopes
It’s hard to beat this wave for its variations of sections. A long left with mutiple deep barrel opportunities, can hold real size. Made famous by the Young Guns 2 movie with Kelly Slater and Co having a load of fun with Indies Trader 4 and a helicopter!
Icelands
The swell magnet for the area, Icelands is a left with many faces. An easy going west peak look fun but the main part of the wave loves the south swell angle produces a solid drop, barrel section and bowls at the end. Can be very heavy on its day.
Scarecrows
Breaks off of an island called Tugat Nusa just south of Telescopes. Great consistent left as exposed to South as well as SW swell. Best on a dropping high tide with the end section named the Curry bowl the pick of the wave for barrel riders.
• Return airport transfers in Padang
• 9 or 12 nights onboard accommodation, twin share
• 3 hearty meals a day.
• Some snacks and beverages.
• 3 beers/day.
• Mentawai Itinerary as standard
• Use of onboard equipment for fishing and snorkelling.
Extra Costs:
Every surfer visiting the Mentawai is required to pay the Mentawai Regional Government Surfer Tax for 15 days surfing in the region. This is normally paid on arrival in cash (Indonesian Rupiah) and collected by the local operator before departing Padang. You will be issued a wristband with dates. Please ensure you have this for your entire stay in the Mentawai.
• Telos Itinerary available with fuel surcharge
• Upon request, Oasis will supply a surf trip photographer. Cost of photographer service is $400 AUD prepaid per guest for rights to all images of themselves and a complete set of lifestyle photos from the trip.
• Airconditioned Media Room: Flat-screen TV, DVD player & pumping stereo.
• Airconditioned Dining Room
• Shaded Decks.
• Lenght: 88ft.
• Cruising speed: 9+ knots
• Satellite Phone
• Engine: twin Mitsubishi 8DC9’s with 320 HP each.
• Generator: Two Mitsubishi PS100 220 volt.
• Radio: ICOM SSB.
• Radar: Furuno.
• GPS: Garmin
• Coast Guard approved 20-man life raft.
• Life jackets: 25 pcs, Life rings: 4 pieces
• Flares, smoke and emergency alarms.
• Diesel fuel tank: 8000 liters
• Water tank: 5500 liters
The Boat
Oasis is a very good-value surf charter boat in Mentawais, able to serve up to 8 to 12 surfers. She is a 80-feet long traditional Indonesian boat and has a 17-foot speedboat with 85HP onboard to get you fast to the surf breaks.
Activities
After a surf, go for a snorkel or pull out a rod to catch some fish. Lots of good meals are just waiting to be caught in the clean blue Indian Ocean that surround the Mentawai Islands. As you journey between waves, the boat will be trolling with lures out to catch fish. Often times you'll pull in Dorados, Onos, Mackerel, Grouper and the occasional Marlin or Sailfish.
Surfing
Best quality waves in the world. The Mentawai Islands and the wider regions expanding up to Nias and further south has one of the best wave fields in the world. Open to all the amazing long period swells generated from the south indian ocean’s roaring 40’s, yet nestled away on the equator with lighter winds and weather systems. This combined for perfect swells, perfect weather and amazing barrels.
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