Showing posts with label Pangkor Island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pangkor Island. Show all posts

8 March 2009

We spent several days anchored in Lumut, not that there was a lot to do, but we did visit the town centre which is very touristy as it is the departure point for the ferries to Pangkor Island. After some shopping in Manjung, the main centre about 10 minutes drive away, we were ready to go.
It was a fairly short hop across to the west coast of Pangkor Island where we spent one night anchored in Nipah Bay, 04° 13.876N, 100° 32.511 E, where the roll was not as significant as originally thought and we both slept well. We then left there at daybreak for Pulau Angsa, a tiny island with a lighthouse, located in the northern shipping channel to Port Klang. Wind was about 8 knots from SW so had a little assistance from that but none from the current so we did not make our anchorage, 03° 00.328N, 101° 23.371E, until almost 10:00 p.m. We had the anchorage to ourselves until the early hours of the morning when several local fishing boats anchored not far off our starboard bow. Saturday dawned with low cloud and some rain but not much wind. We set off for Port Klang and decided to try the Royal Selangor Yacht Club for something different. As we came up to the Club we were approached by an RSYC dinghy indicating where we could tie up so we made the decision to stay the night there. During the afternoon there was a lot of rain and thunder and lightning but it cleared overnight to our first sunny day for a few days. This arm of the port is called South Port and is devoted to smaller boats with a lot of Indonesian traditional perahu-style wooden boats from across the Malacca Strait loading and unloading cargo.

We left the yacht club about lunch time with the aim of anchoring near the mouth of the Klang Channel. This would give us an easy exit the following morning to continue our passage down the Malacca Straits. We chose what we thought would be a calm anchorage along the northern shore, opposite the container wharf. What we hadn't accounted for though was the amount of shipping coming and going during the night and the work continuing throughout the night opposite! It was a very uncomfortable and noisy anchorage and to top it off we had quite a thunder storm pass through before dawn creating uncomfortable wind waves to push through when we left.

Well, it certainly looked like a good spot to spend the night!