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#49236 05/12/05 10:57 AM 05/12/05 10:57 AM |
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 5,558 Key Largo, FL & Put-in-Bay, OH... Mary
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Posts: 5,558 Key Largo, FL & Put-in-Bay, OH... | Here's a really cheap and simple suggestion, although I realize men prefer gadgets.
Can't you attach a waterproof, clear plastic envelope to your mainsail, like distance racers have for their charts? And then before you go sailing, print out all the tide information for the day and put it in the envelope so you can easily read it? | | | Re: Tide Watches
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#49237 05/12/05 11:32 AM 05/12/05 11:32 AM |
Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 69 Chuck
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Posts: 69 | Surf companies make tide watches. I have a Ripcurl ATS Oceantide. It is digital and I use it as a racing watch also. It was $100. http://www.ripcurl.com/content/anmviewer.asp?a=2653&z=90
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#49238 05/12/05 01:34 PM 05/12/05 01:34 PM |
Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 141 Panama City Beach, FL steveh
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Posts: 141 Panama City Beach, FL | I was looking at one at Wal-Mart for about $7. It had about 50 east and west coast cities in its database and nothing on the Gulf. Huge numbers, too. Tide Tool is a nice Palm app with over 7000 locations worldwide. There are nine locations on my bay system alone. It has currents for some passes and sun and moon rise and set times. It also can go out to any future date. For instance, I know that the Slip to Ship racers will be fighting a rising tide at 0900 on the 28th and slack for the return. Best thing is that the software is free, and with older Palms going for $20 to $40 on Ebay, it's probably the cheapest portable tide tool you could find. Aquapac makes cases for Palms, too.
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[Re: BarnegatBayNJ_Wave_Sailor]
#49240 05/12/05 01:57 PM 05/12/05 01:57 PM |
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 5,558 Key Largo, FL & Put-in-Bay, OH... Mary
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Posts: 5,558 Key Largo, FL & Put-in-Bay, OH... | I KNEW you wouldn't like the plastic bag idea. And you probably don't get your weather forecasts from the Old Farmer's Almanac, either. It's hard to find a low-tech man these days -- especially on this forum. But, seriously, does the water in parts of Barnegat Bay get so shallow you can't sail it in a Wave? | | | Re: Tide Tool for the Palm
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#49241 05/12/05 02:10 PM 05/12/05 02:10 PM |
Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 1,382 Essex, UK Jalani
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Posts: 1,382 Essex, UK | Steveh, I use Tide Tool 2.2 on a Palm Tungsten and it is brilliantly accurate! I find that it is never more than a few minutes out from the officially published high/low times and usually within .2m or so of published heights. It is so convenient to be able to just glance at my Palm whenever we are having a quick calculate at home as to whether it would be worth going sailing on a particular day, what time we should have family lunch etc. It's much quicker and easier than digging through the tide tables and I have my Palm with me almost always. Of course my view is that it's worth going sailing at any time
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#49246 05/16/05 11:37 AM 05/16/05 11:37 AM |
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Posts: 8 | Large expanses of Barnegat bay are very shallow (1-3 ft or less). I don't sail exclusively in these areas, but doing so has several advantages: 1. Less motor boat and jet ski traffic. 2. Flatter water. 3. Navigational "short cuts"--less manuevering and more direct routes in some wind conditions to get to wherever it is I'm going. The disadvantage is: Getting trapped or otherwise stranded as the tide falls. Hence the desire to have some accurate tide info so I can cut things close. On reflection: the plastic bag approach seems sort of appropriate as it is more of a purist approach (no motor therefore minimal gadgets?). Perhaps I should think some about my "philosophy." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proennekehttp://www.minifarmhomestead.com/outdoors/richardproenneke.htmThanks Mary | | | Re: Tide Watches
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#49248 12/09/06 12:43 PM 12/09/06 12:43 PM | Anonymous
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I LOVE the Ronstan Clear Start. The Sync function has saved or butt and won us races. And it is TOUGH. Also easy to see numbers and beeps at the minutes.
Doug
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