AUS tide app (Android) recommendations?

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I should be spending a few days sailing in the Whitsunday Islands shortly and could use an online tides and tidal streams android app for planning.

Anybody have any recommendations? Alternatively any printed tidal atlas I could order beforehand.

p.s.
I already have the Navionics chart app but needing something a bit more detailed re tidal streams.

TIA.
 
AHoy2 said:
I should be spending a few days sailing in the Whitsunday Islands shortly and could use an online tides and tidal streams android app for planning.

Anybody have any recommendations? Alternatively any printed tidal atlas I could order beforehand.

p.s.
I already have the Navionics chart app but needing something a bit more detailed re tidal streams.

TIA.
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We just sailed up that coast. Don't worry about the tides too much. It's the Crocs and Sharks that will get you. Alternatively get the Queensland tide tables very good and almost correct.....Just enjoy the sailing great coast and easy sailing.
 
Thanks all for the responses, no app or web based tidal streams it seems so Queensland tide tables are an early consideration when I get there.

The tide-forecast site you mentioned DanTribe looks useful for a one-stop view of local conditions (currently 2m wave height at 6 second interval but with warm water!)
I already have the Navionics app/chart for the area but the tidal stream vectors are a bit sparse, still probably adequate to avoid too much wind against tide.
 
Tides fill from the north through the Whitsundays and can vary from 3-5m depending where you are. The most important tidal issues are the passages between the islands - don't try to fight them. 99% of boats will have the local 'bible', 100 Magic Miles, as a pilot guide to all things Whitsunday. Whilst this will not have the tide tables it does describe the character of the tides.

If you are chartering, the boat will probably have a Qld chart table/book. Also, typically charter operators announce tides during their morning and afternoon VHF radio schedules. Even if you are in a private boat without the aforementioned books, you can listen in and get the info-also can be entertaining. If you are chartering the operator expects you to give an intended cruise destination and ETA during the morning sched and require you to be at anchor by about 4pm fro the afternoon sched to ensure you don't try to enter a coral fringed anchorage too late in the afternoon when it is difficult to see the 'hard stuff'.

Don't fret too much about these issues, there are plenty of great anchorages to settle in to for a sundowner even if they were not on plan A.
 
You can download Queensland tide tables from here
http://www.msq.qld.gov.au/Tides/Tide-tables
No tidal atlas, but 100 Magic Miles has a very crude tidal flow diagram.
It's a magic sailing area, but I did find the restrictions imposed by the charter companies and regional park a bit tedious.
However, I will be going again [please!].
 
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