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Friday, November 4, 2011

Heading North from Port Klang To Berham River Latitude 03 deg 48min N.

After using the free clothes washer ( no dryer) in the women's washroom at Pualau Indah marina, we left for an anchorage about 12 miles away.  This was to shorten the next day which would have been 70 miles, too long a day for us to leave and arrive in daylight.
   We motored back up our channel and then cut over to the other channel.  See below for details and waypoints.  This is a busy shipping channel but if you stay to the West side or the, bush side there is no problem.  The East bank is mile after mile of docks and ships loading.   It was interesting to see the port in action, even had a big cruise ship go by us, we just stayed close to the bush in 20 to 70 feet of water and we were out of the way of ships.  Port Klang is the biggest shipping port in Malaysia and seems to handle a lot more ships that Vancouver harbour.  There was a few fishermen but they were using fishing rods not nets.

   After leaving marina  we went into other channel with this waypoint to indicate it,  02 55.029N  101 16.643E.     Then anchored at  03 02.504N   101 20.349E  in 22ft.    Was a peaceful anchorage, Neptune suggested this one to us when we visited with them the previous night.
  An hour before daylight we left to do the 59 miles to our next anchorage in the Berham river.  It was another day of motoring.   Saw many fish boats today, but they are using a different kind of net than used in the South Malacca strait.  These nets are towed behind and are deep in the water so do not present a problem to us and so the boats are much easier to avoid.
We got to our entrance waypoint around 5pm (see below for anchorage details) and then motored into bay and up the river against a 1.5 knot current and anchored just around the corner for a quiet night at anchor.  Though a number of fish boats went by during the evening. Heard a few rumbles of thunder but no lighting storms yesterday or today.

We anchored in the Berham river in 14ft at 03 50.823   100 49.550.   To enter river, here is a set of Waypoints.  First 03 48.208N    100 45.347E Second  03 49.048   100 46.375   Third 03 51.013   100 48.908.     The second waypoint is at a white/red buoy and you go in a straight line from it to the last waypoint.  (exactly down center of bay on chart plotter)We came in near a low tide of 5 ft and never saw less than 14 ft.  At the bottom of a zero tide, depths might get down to7 or 8feet.  The water gets a bit deeper after turning corner into river and from last waypoint head to anchorage, watching your depths. When we pulled up anchor in morning it was covered in heavy sticky mud, so would probably hold in almost anything.

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