Where to find reliable tide times online?
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As the title says really, I've found tide times.org but it seems a little unreliable, or there's something peculiar about Swanage that I'm missing - See http://www.tidetimes.org.uk/Swanage-20110923.html Tides should be 6ish hours apart AFAIK?
So what sites do you guys use?
So what sites do you guys use?
I'm not a nautical person, however a quick Google came up with these.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast_and_sea/tide_t...
http://easytide.ukho.gov.uk/EasyTide/EasyTide/inde...
Anything there that may be of use to you?
Further to that, I found this.
http://www.climbers-club.co.uk/tides/tides.html
Which seems to show a graph of water levels that aren't exactly evenly spaced time wise. Could this explain your situation?
HTH![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast_and_sea/tide_t...
http://easytide.ukho.gov.uk/EasyTide/EasyTide/inde...
Anything there that may be of use to you?
Further to that, I found this.
http://www.climbers-club.co.uk/tides/tides.html
Which seems to show a graph of water levels that aren't exactly evenly spaced time wise. Could this explain your situation?
HTH
![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
When I've sailed in the solent I've always been told the Island can affect the tides massivly, with double highs and short lows.
This site seems to explain it; http://www.climbers-club.co.uk/tides/tides.html
This site seems to explain it; http://www.climbers-club.co.uk/tides/tides.html
kieranbennett said:
When I've sailed in the solent I've always been told the Island can affect the tides massivly, with double highs and short lows.
This site seems to explain it; http://www.climbers-club.co.uk/tides/tides.html
The isle of wight causes 2 tidal phenomenon. One is a short duration ebb tide, the other is called the young flood stand. This is a slackening of the stream, 2 hours after low water. The double high water isn't actually caused by the 2 entrances to the Solent or the isle of wight.This site seems to explain it; http://www.climbers-club.co.uk/tides/tides.html
http://www.bristolnomads.org.uk/stuff/double_tides...
Edited by Gwagon111 on Monday 26th September 11:21
Bill said:
Aha, that makes sense, although I've found times when the Beeb and tide times.org agree but the locals say something else![banghead](/inc/images/banghead.gif)
Swanage is a secondary port, so all predictions that you find will be derived from Portsmouth.![banghead](/inc/images/banghead.gif)
Swanage seems to have weird tides. When Portsmouth has high water at noon or midnight, Swanage will have HW 2h50m earlier. When Portsmouth has HW at 06:00 or 18:00, then Swanage has HW 1h5m later.
Low water, however, seems to be always 1h5m before Portsmouth.
With such a huge variation, I suspect that accurate predictions are a bit difficult. So, I would just use the site that you have already found - but don't bet large sums of money on its accuracy.
Don
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