E62 – PANGKOR TO LANGKAWI
Departing Pangkor to Langkawi.
Leaving Pangkor in the still dark hours of the morning I skirted up the channel between the Island of Pangkor and the Malaysian Peninsula (Lumut) exiting and clearing Pangkor well and truly by early morning. Here I found a large fleet of small fishing vessels laying drift nets, but I was able to skirt around the outside of the fleet without too much trouble.
I had a cracking sail up to the southern end of Penang and anchored in a sheltered bay where I saw other vessels had anchored before from Navionics and Zulu Waterways…At about 11pm though, I had a small fishing boat come at me, literally screaming and yelling F*** this and F*** that. He was adamant that the bay belonged to him and his personal drift net and to prove his point, he set his net across the bow of Starlight with the current drifting it down towards me leaving me no other choice than to move, or have to cut his net off the boat and anchor chain. In all my years of long distance sailing, I have never experienced anyone as aggressive as this guy who went from zero to one hundred on the anger scale as he came at Starlight.
I then motored east into the channel between Penang and the main peninsula, crossing under 2 bridges that, as always, looked just like the mast wouldn’t fit although the charts promised we would. I finally got anchored on the NE bay of Penang about 1am and slept soundly.
Next morning, I was up as early as there was daylight and pushed the 65nm north to Penang in a single fast sail.
