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We had a little drama at the Pulau Selangor anchorage. Little boats with freakin’ drift nets were all over the place. One got hung up on SD’s anchor rode but the operator was successful in freeing it, albeit with some seriously disgruntled facial expressions! We thought we were done with that, but around 8 PM we noticed we were dragging anchor. huh? Conditions were benign. Well, we weighed anchor and low and behold, there were three nets hung up on the rode below the water. This is what was causing us to drag. Hated to do it, but we cut them free and then re-anchored. These drift nets make it practically impossible to anchor in an open roadstead. We got lucky and no more nets drifted down on us during the night, and we managed to get a good night’s sleep.

Poked my head out of the companionway early the next morning, and sure enough, noticed a boat and net drifting down on us. Hurriedly got underway at 0845 for the 45 mile run to Sungai (Malay for river) Bernam. As usual, we had light headwinds and had to motorsail the whole way. Otherwise, conditions were pretty good, with small wind-waves and the wind picked up to a nice breeze in the afternoon. We were able to unroll the headsail to assist the mainsail. For reasons unknown to us, we didn’t get much of the boost we had expected from the current today.

1745 – anchor down just inside the river. The locals wave to us as they pass in their fishing boats. It’s good to be here.

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