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Saturday, November 5, 2011

Pangkor Malaysia 04 12.6 Deg N

We left at the first hint of daylight to take advantage of the ebb tide out of the river.  As soon as I started to pull up the anchor it started to rain.   We had 3 months without rain in Indonesia and now it seems to be making up for it as we get some rain everyday now.
  The wind came up a bit as we left the bay and headed North, and managed to sail 10 of the 30 miles we had to do today. The wind was  just off the nose and we sailed close hauled on stbd tack so there was no sea to slow us down.   I tried to phone marina at Pangkor to see if there was room and with the language gap successfully booked a room for Tagish in their hotel.  I realized this at the end of the call.  Found another number and this time called James at +6016 559 2800 and he said there was room until Nov 10 when the Malasia rally gets in.  We have been trying to stay ahead of the rally which has 50 boats in it.
We pulled into the marina as it started to rain again around 2pm.   We saw lots of fish boats on the way up today and there was lots of black flags near them but not sure what was attached to flags but it did not seem to be something for us to worry about as long as we did not actually hit them.
Internet works here, actually we have had working internet just about anywhere on the coast though a bit slow sometimes.   The marina just opened last year and they installed 2 regular toilets and one squat toilet have no toilet paper in them and the shower is in stall with toilets. 
We took the short ferry ride over to Pangkor island  to look around.  Lots of shops there and fruit and veg.  Also taxied over to other side of island and did a short but steep hike up to the swinging bridge.  There is also a number of good shops about 20 min walk from marina, walk over bridge and turn right.

Approach waypoints for Pangkor marina, Marina Island. It is very shallow to sides. First wp 04 12.767N  100 35.100E  second 04 12.708N   100 35.358E   third 04 12.728N   100 35.898E  and Marina  is at  04 12.665N   100 36.125E  Note: When we came out on a low tide of 3 ft we saw depths get down to 8 and 9 feet at times, so at a zero tide, may be touching bottom.

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