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Monday, October 31, 2011

Port Dickson To Port Klang

Left at dawn to do the 45 miles to Port Klang.  We have had the worst sailing we have seen since leaving Canada, we have pretty much motored or motor sailed all the way from Singapore, no wind.
There is a steady stream of ships up shipping lane off coast, not many fish boats today.
The Malay coast is not too interesting, suppose to get better further North.
    We arrived at the entrance to Pulau Indah Marina around 4:30pm.  There was a good current running with us as we approached marina, so we turned and came up into current to come along side outer pontoon and tie up.  It took some playing with the throttle to get the speed right in the 2 knot current and get onto the dock without banging things.  There is three separate outer pontoons, could squeeze two 40fters on each one.   This huge marina is empty except for 4 boats.  We had tried to call marina by phone and VHF 61, but no answer.  Though someone did greet us to take our dock lines, I guess they saw us approaching.  Another yacht said when they came in they were on their own and when they went up to office one guy was sleeping on couch and the other playing a video game.  But they are friendly and laid back here.
 It is not wise to enter marina until the current is near slack, there is no break water to stop current and apparently if they built one it would silt up marina.  It is only $8.00 a day here, very cheap and has showers and power if you need them.  Nothing else here in area. You can get a taxi into town for 35 to 50 RP. 
There is a small grocery store, no veggies, about 35 minute walk away. Turn  right at road and walk for 15 min and then go left and follow this road for about 20 min, go straight on this road, do not take any right or left turns, just go straight and after 20 min get to a intersection, and store is 200 feet to your right on intersecting road.
 We had a montster Thunderstorm go by last night and were wondering if we were going to get hit.  You could see bolts of lighting going straight down all around us and and huge cracks and then bangs of thunder, and the rain monsooned down on us.

Entrance waypoints to marina: Channel entrance 02 52.352  101 16.183  then 02 52.745   101 16.183 then 02 53.088    101 17.590  and Marina is at 02 54.453N   101 18.691E
I give these points off our track, because I noticed the depth got down to 13 feet at one point,  very close to low tide. Not sure if this is where we were suppose to be but this worked for us and there is no channel markers.  There was some small ships in here as well which gave us some confidence to enter river.  We stayed more to the right side or South side of river as it looked like it would be deeper, generally 18 to 25 feet, low tide, then crossed near the marina, good depths.

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