BBC Tides. Excellent

I'm berthed at Titchmarsh, on the Walton Backwaters. All tide tables give tide times for Walton-on-the-Naze. Now, Walton has TWO bits of sea adjacent to it - the North Sea (where there is an exposed beach, a typical resort pier that houses the lifeboat and absolutely NO facilities for boats other than the lifeboat) and Foundry Reach, which connects to the Backwaters. Foundry Reach is where all the boaty activities take place, including the yacht club and boatyards.

The tides are not the same either side of Walton, though the difference is not great. So, which side of Walton do the tide-tables apply to? From a user POV, it would make sense for it to be Foundry Reach.
 
I find all of the online tide tables rather limited, in that they only ever have the times of HW and LW for about a week. I tend to use online stuff for planning, often weeks in advance of a passage.
 
AntarcticPilot said:
So, which side of Walton do the tide-tables apply to? From a user POV, it would make sense for it to be Foundry Reach.
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Without checking, I would have thought it would be the seaward side, Walton-on-the-Naze (Naze = headland), rather than Walton Backwaters.

p.s. Looking at the map on the UKHO Easytide site, 'Walton on the Naze' is definitely on the coast, but it also has times for 'Bramble Creek'. Though the latter is at the other end of the Backwaters, it's tide times and heights will probably much more closely align with those at Titchmarsh than the 'Walton-on-the Naze' times/heights do, Iwould have thought.
 
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Sandy said:
I find all of the online tide tables rather limited, in that they only ever have the times of HW and LW for about a week.
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That's all the UKHO will allow their data to be used for without a paid license.

I use the Imray tides app on my phone, and pay two or three quid per year for a license. They usually have a couple of years into the future available.

Pete
 
LittleSister said:
Without checking, I would have thought it would be the seaward side, Walton-on-the-Naze (Naze = headland), rather than Walton Backwaters.

p.s. Looking at the map on the UKHO Easytide site, 'Walton on the Naze' is definitely on the coast, but it also has times for 'Bramble Creek'. Though the latter is at the other end of the Backwaters, it's tide times and heights will probably much more closely align with those at Titchmarsh than the 'Walton-on-the Naze' times/heights do, Iwould have thought.
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That is also what I guessed - but it seems a little perverse not to specify it explitly, especially in a location where all maritime activity takes place on the landward side!
It is somewhat academic anyway - if I need to worry about the few minutes difference, then I'm cutting it too fine!
 
BBC site looks very good.
The Hydrographics Office ' Electronic Tidal Prediction System' has come on a bit over the years, I see they now have five port numbers for Poole (36, a, b, c, d). I have a copy of the first version (1991) compiled for DOS, which has three locations for Poole and will only do 3 days at a go, but I can select any past or future period, so still useful even if it is a pain to run it in a DOS box :)
 
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Sandy said:
I find all of the online tide tables rather limited, in that they only ever have the times of HW and LW for about a week. I tend to use online stuff for planning, often weeks in advance of a passage.
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Sandy - with yer new avatar and location information, I see you've re-engineered yourself. Not cynically I hope?.
Martin Edge will be impressed
 
claymore said:
Sandy - with yer new avatar and location information, I see you've re-engineered yourself. Not cynically I hope?.
Martin Edge will be impressed
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I saw the pan-celtic flag in Brittany many years ago and my wife kindly included it as a birthday present. I've used the "On the Celtic Fringe" on many forums over the last 30 years and as the boat is no longer on the Exe I thought it was about time to change my location.

Looking forward to a voyage through all the Celtic nations in the next few years.
 
Sandy said:
I saw the pan-celtic flag in Brittany many years ago and my wife kindly included it as a birthday present. I've used the "On the Celtic Fringe" on many forums over the last 30 years and as the boat is no longer on the Exe I thought it was about time to change my location.

Looking forward to a voyage through all the Celtic nations in the next few years.
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As an unrepentant and somewhat impure Anglosaxon, I was intrigued to learn that the Celts never came to Britain.
 
johnalison said:
I was certainly taught fake history, what little I stayed awake for. The beaker people came to Britain, not the Celts, who only gave us their culture. On TV, so it must be true.
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I find it fascinating how history is taught. I did Scottish and my daughter English, same thing from a different viewpoint.
 
johnalison said:
I was certainly taught fake history, what little I stayed awake for. The beaker people came to Britain, not the Celts, who only gave us their culture. On TV, so it must be true.
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If I've recalled it correctly, the Beaker people probably WERE Celts! In fact, I've just had a quick check, and it appears that it is highly likely that they were ancestral to Celts.
 
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Sandy said:
I find all of the online tide tables rather limited, in that they only ever have the times of HW and LW for about a week. I tend to use online stuff for planning, often weeks in advance of a passage.
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Try 'tides for fishing'
 
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