Admiralty Easytide - backward step

[Bru]

Just had a notification that "following extensive consultation with users" (yeah right) Easytide is being "simplified"

The "simplification" appears to be solely the removal of the pay per view extended service beyond 1 week ahead

Guess i shall have to fall back on Navionics tidal predictions (which in my experience aren't as accurate at least in my local waters but adequate enough)

 

[ctva]

I never use it for more than a few days hence and I do like the graph.

There are so many free options out there or really cheap ones like Imray, they probably got no business so a bit of a waste maintaining it.

 

[Lightwave395]

A years tides anywhere in Europe / UK free:

Plymouth - September tide times - METEO CONSULT MARINE - Free 15-day Marine forecasts - METEO CONSULT MARINE

 

[Kelpie]

It's always been my go-to as it seems to be the most accurate. I've never tried the paid service.
I do wish the graph had a scale on it- I ended up up trying to squint along using a straight edge on the laptop screen.

 

[Bru]

A years tides anywhere in Europe / UK free:

Plymouth - September tide times - METEO CONSULT MARINE - Free 15-day Marine forecasts - METEO CONSULT MARINE

Doesn't cover secondary ports e.g Fambridge where I'm berthed (which is the tidal forecast i particularly need months in advance when planning holidays)

 

[[70521]]

Why we have to pay for Hydrographic Office information is beyond me. Lots of free stuff out there, I am not in the nanosecond, millimetre school of navigation. To the nearest half hour and 0 .5 meter does me.

 

[prv]

Why we have to pay for Hydrographic Office information is beyond me.

Government policy that agencies like UKHO, Ordnance Survey, Met Office etc have to turn a profit rather than be taxpayer funded like in the US.

Pete

 

[Bru]

Why we have to pay for Hydrographic Office information is beyond me. Lots of free stuff out there, I am not in the nanosecond, millimetre school of navigation. To the nearest half hour and 0 .5 meter does me.

Ah, not a regular around the Thames Estuary then!

Some of our regular passages, half an hour and half a metre could well be the difference between getting to the pub on time and spending a tidal cycle lying on our beam ends pretending we're French

 

[[70521]]

Ah, not a regular around the Thames Estuary then!

No. Boat currently in Plymouth.

 

[Bru]

No. Boat currently in Plymouth.

Loadsa water and rocks that don't move. Dead easy

 

[[70521]]

Loadsa water and rocks that don't move. Dead easy

Try the Exe where I used to keep my boat!

 

[Bru]

Try the Exe where I used to keep my boat!

One day I'll get that far!

 

[mainsail1]

To me, a strange decision by Easy tide. Surely, not a big deal to just keep things going as it was? I used their predictions and thought it worth the small payment. Obviously they did not consult me........

 

[LiftyK]

Silly me. I took the upcoming change to mean “in future you will no longer have to pay for forecasts more than a week ahead”. I have Imray Tides Planner but occasionally use Easytide for smaller ports.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Government policy that agencies like UKHO, Ordnance Survey, Met Office etc have to turn a profit rather than be taxpayer funded like in the US.

Pete

With the additional caveat that they aren't allowed to undercut commercial services. At least, that's what I was told at seminars on the subject when I worked in that world - it wasn't relevant to me, as the Antarctic Treaty has provisions about free exchange of information.

 

[[70521]]

One day I'll get that far!

A lovely river, but as you say the same moving sandbanks as the east coast.

 

[Malish]

Absolute Tides and similar apps are fine for me (on the East Coast) and hardly break the bank, with a given that barometric pressure is an unpredictable variable

 

[Bru]

Absolute Tides and similar apps are fine for me (on the East Coast) and hardly break the bank, with a given that barometric pressure is an unpredictable variable

I too use Absolute Tides but i liked pulling up any key tidal data on Easytide on the laptop i use for planning

Especially when we were on the mud berth at Fambridge cos i could cut and paste the data for the whole year into a spreadsheet template and it worked out the dates and time windows for getting on and off the berth

(Not a problem henceforth as when we finally relaunch we're going back on a swinging mooring)

 

[dunedin]

Absolute Tides and similar apps are fine for me (on the East Coast) and hardly break the bank, with a given that barometric pressure is an unpredictable variable

Ditto. Haven't used Easytide, or indeed a paper tide table, for years.
Have the Absolute Tides for today on phone home screen. And as downloaded, don't need Internet access

 

[andyc352]

I’ve been using “Easytide” https://easytide.admiralty.co.uk/ for over 4 years out here in Atlantic Portugal and Spain but as from today it only appears to show UK ports. Is this yet another “Bidet” benefit of global Britain or is there a less sinister reason?