Ferry schedule from Ternate / Halmahera to Sorong

For the hardy, there are also Perintis ships from Ternate to Sorog via Halmahera, often Morotai, and several islands in Raja Ampat. They are irregular and very basic, but very cheap, too. And thry could get one to parts of RA that are very hard or expensive to reach by other means.

And thry could get one to parts of RA that are very hard or expensive to reach by other means.

I'm going to put that in the back of my mind somewhere for future reference...

Glad to see that this service is still operating.

I took it the opposite way a year and half ago and reported here a couple of times as it seemed to me a very convenient, cheap and enjoyable way of linking the two provinces (32 hours sail for 800.000 with full board and private cabin with AC, DVD player, HOt Water for tea and coffee..)

Besides calling in obscure ports of eastern halmahera, the Weda to Sorong vessel stops in Gebe and was initally scheduled to call at Gag island as well, although it bypassed this island most of times due to lack of demand, same problem for BUli bay and morotai (scheduled but cancelled as well)

And are Gag and Gebe worth a stop?

Gebe can be but Gag much less so.
Buli and Morotai are way off the Weda-Sorong routes, but Ternate-Sorong Perimtis ships may stop there.

on the advertising leaflet glued in the ticket counters in the main building of the Sorong port (on the left just before the last women merchants stalls and the gate to the quays proper), Buli (sorry was it Maba instead? i think it refers to the same?)and Morotai were clearly mentionned as part of the route from Sorong to Weda but i talked to the guy selling the tickets inside the boat the very day of departue (If i recall well it was every Monday at 4 PM) and he told me that Buli/Maba, morotai and gag were all dropped from schedule due to lack of demand!
I too was wondering the seemingly out of the way detour towards morotai while you can easily draw an almost straight line from Sorong through Gebe, Banemo, Patani and onto Weda!

There are numerous Perintis departing from Sorong towards the most obscure ports in all of Papua Barat: i saw and almost caught the one going to North batanta (Arefi) and onto Pam islands. there is also a very interesting one going very close to Wayag to Selpele/Sarpele village, also many going to Kofiau by way of North Misool (Kofiau being very interesting place to visit if i can trust one of the local environment employees met with a bunch of officials why surveying North batanta) did not go there myself so can not comment on his words
I also spent sometime on board a cargo ship while docked in Sorong, it was headed to the inner bay of Babo/Bintuni in mainlad West Papua and it was Horrendously packed, i mean it would have been a nightmare to sail on it, so i trust @Laszlo and his experiences..... Of course you would need to speak decent bahasa and wait sometimes up to a week or a fortnight (More?) to get onboard one headed towards your destination.... The one to Babo/Bintuni was packed with passengers already waiting for a couple days on dock and possibly (i mean they did not know when exactely) for a couple more days, waiting for more cargo or to fix a mechanical problem..... PATIENCE, these guys knew what this word really means But then i know they dont have any alternatives!!!
I guess a sail of 12/24 hours could be acceptable but ploying all the way from Sorong to Ternate while stopping at a zillion islands and ports on the way on board of one of these perintis/cargo ships.. it will take daaaaays....and in these conditions!!... has anyone done it before??

has anyone done it before??

I have, several times, on different routes.
That's why I don't normally recommend them, except for the truly hardy and adventurous. ;-)

Btw, Kofiau is not particularly interesting or beautiful.

Buli and Morotai are on a Perintis route, but there's no way they would be stops between Sorong and Weda. Gebe and Patani are.

Last year we met a local guy in Halmahera.He informed us about public ferry between Halmahera(weda) and Sorong (supossely'there would be two boats a week, the fast one a d the slow one.He told us that this ferries also stops in some smalls islands with great untouched reefs in between Halmahera and Gebe (Pulau sayafi, pulau liwo and pulau moor . )We are planning to take this route next auttum, but it looks that the boats from Weda to Sorong doesnt stop in this islands ...
Anybody knows about this route?Lazslo ?
Thanks

You seem to have got a lot of rubbish info from that guy!
Those islands off Patani are largely uninhabited and the public boats obviously don't stop at them.
As far as I know, they stop at Patani and Gebe only in that region.