Slocumotion
Well-Known Member
Absolute Tides has a number of secondary ports but unfortunately it's "St Mary's" is the one in the Scilly Isles not the one in Orkney - so, how to create a custom secondary for my one?
AT requires MEAN High and Low waters at Springs and Neaps, and time differences between H and L water at the reference port and the custom location.
I have a tide table for my St Mary's so my thought is to find dates and times on the standard port (Aberdeen) table when heights are equal to the mean figures given in AT (for Aberdeen) ; take the figures from my St Mary's table on those same days for the nearest high and low tides, and enter them. Similarly for times.
My question is simply, do you reckon that will work?
Secondary question. How do others make full use of the tidal stream data when your Tide Table doesn't give you Mean values for your Reference Port and you therefore don't know the tidal factor for the day?( As far as I can see, the mean figures are only given in the setup screen for creating the Secondary).
I thought it was considered bad form to start estimating and rounding that early in a calculation.
AT requires MEAN High and Low waters at Springs and Neaps, and time differences between H and L water at the reference port and the custom location.
I have a tide table for my St Mary's so my thought is to find dates and times on the standard port (Aberdeen) table when heights are equal to the mean figures given in AT (for Aberdeen) ; take the figures from my St Mary's table on those same days for the nearest high and low tides, and enter them. Similarly for times.
My question is simply, do you reckon that will work?
Secondary question. How do others make full use of the tidal stream data when your Tide Table doesn't give you Mean values for your Reference Port and you therefore don't know the tidal factor for the day?( As far as I can see, the mean figures are only given in the setup screen for creating the Secondary).
I thought it was considered bad form to start estimating and rounding that early in a calculation.