Tidal Curves on the net?

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Anyone know of a site that has British Tidal curves you could download?? I have tried scanning and printing them out of McMillans but with my basic equipment (and skills)the results were not wonderfull.

I found some Japanese ports that put them out daily with todays figures allready on ,not much use off Avonmouth unfortunately. Ideally blank, enlarged tidalcurves for British standard ports would be handy.
 
I purchased Tide Plotter 2003 from Belfield, you can buy it over the net about £9. This is the 3rd year that I've bought it and consider it good value for money.
It covers, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Netherlands and France.
Covers more than just Ports and secondary ports, to give an example, Poole area,
Swanage, Poole Entrance, Poole Harbour (Quay), Pottery pier, Bournemouth, Christchurch Entrance, Christchurch Quay, Tuckton. are all covered separately.
You can print the graph, the tides for one day or the entire month.
I have no conection with Belfield, other than being a very satisfied customer.

Brian
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/brunyard
 
I looked at the site(put Belfield tide curves into google search) and downloaded the trial edition which is a fully operational one for Jan and Feb 2003.

Its brilliant . Very simple to use.(needs to be) They get my £9.99 anyway.
 
There was a good thread on this a month or three back.
See <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.ybw.com/cgi-bin/forums/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=pbo&Number=258404&Search=true&Forum=pbo&Words=wxtide&Match=Or&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Old=3months&Main=258270> Free Tidetables online </A>
You get good results from <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.wxtide32.com>http://www.wxtide32.com</A>
 
For internet based prediction, go to the horse's mouth....

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.ukho.gov.uk/tideprediction.cfm>http://www.ukho.gov.uk/tideprediction.cfm</A>
 
WinTide (or whatever flavour you choose to download... there are several) is a good program, but the admiralty hydrographic office demanded that all the UK port tidal co-efficients be removed from the supplied data files. They're copyright and are consequently no longer included.

Ingenious use of filesharing systems or search engines may turn up a copy of the missing file... at which point you'd be laughing I suppose.
 
UKHO site gives you the confidence that it is an official source but does not have the usefull features of the Belfield Plotter.

On the Belfield you pick out the area your in put in the time and depth and instantly get told how much the tide will drop by LW.

You can even put in your draft and get an instant reading of what your under keel clearance will be.

If you dont carry a computer on board you can print off the predictions and heights for the ports (standard and secondary) you may visit and take it with you for use in the normal way,but no messing about with secondary port corrections.
 
Belfield must use UKHO data - they'll have paid for a license for it. So it's probably just as 'official'.

UKHO Easytide is good, but only gives a max of 7 days ahead.

Personally I really did not like the way the UKHO harassed everyone into removing 'their' data. I have always believed that the movements of astronomical bodies are the property of no-one - as is the case in most other countries.

UKHO also gave me a really hard time for using a small section of an Admiralty chart, faded and unreadable, as a decorative background to small areas of a web page. They wanted several hundred pounds to allow me to do this, even though it was utterly unuseable for navigation and was a photocopy of a small section of one of my own thoroughly out of date charts. A bit heavy handed, I thought.

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Never mind the net, get hold of "Autotide" or "Wxtide" I run them at home & on board on my laptop.
Saves a lot of calcs etc...
 
Bian, thanks for your experience with Tide Plotter 2003. Does the 2003 version only give tides for 2003, or does it have a longer life than 12 months.

thanks

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by Plum on 29/11/2002 12:19 (server time).</FONT></P>
 
Only lasts 'til the end of 2003. But that still a lot of info for £9.99. In fact having bought it for £9.99 originally, subsequent years are cheaper. The service is excellent, approx Sept each year they send the next years CD, I register via the web and get the code to unlock. As each CD also contains tides for the previous year (eg TidePlotter 2003 contains 2002 and 2003), the upgrade can be done imediately, no need to wait until 1st January.
I always print of the graph for the day and take it with me.

Regards,



Brian
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/brunyard
 
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