Waking up early to catch tides

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Have you noticed that whatever ungodly hour you have to get up , you always wake up before the alarm goes.

Does this happen to others ?

Is this the work of our sub conscious mind or something else ?

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‘ Inside every older person is a younger person – wondering what the hell happened ‘
 
Have heard that it happens in old age. Am not looking forward to it.
 
I use my 'internal' alarm clock and it's suprisingly reliable, often I choose a time and wake within minutes of it. And I don't think I'm old /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Waking early ....

Yep - dopn't bother with alarm now for work ... still in before all others !!

But the funny thing is when I do use one - I always wake before the alarm and cannot bring myself to get out of bed / switch it off ........ it's like a command - I have to wait for it to go off and hit the button !!!
 
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I find if I do wake up early and switch off the alarm, I go back to sleep for a few hours. Its the same syndrome as staying up to listen to the midnight forecast, then nodding off to "sailing bye".
For waking up early at home we have cats, which expect to be fed at the same time each morning and have their own inimitable way of telling you so.
 
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Instead of waking up early to catch tides, why don't you just sleep for another few days until the tide is right at a more godly hour!
 
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I just did a coastal skipper theory course prior to my practical. The instructor was full of little sayings like, "that little pointer at the top of the mast always points at where you want to go". Also the passage planning stuff was always going on about what time you could leave port with a depth of "x" and a charted bar of "y" at the entrance, etc.

It struck me that the little pointer at the top of my mast always points to where I was yesterday, and my passage planning seems to revolve around "what day will it be when the tide is high enough to get out at 11am! If I'm having to tack then I must be going the wrong way, and if it's dark, I misread the distance scale and should be in the pub.

Am I doing it all wrong?? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
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Happens all the time for Rab!. The worst fright comes when you awake suddenly and think - s**t, I forgot to set the alarm - and then it goes off!.
 
Does your alarm make a little noise prior to going off?
It's like people who blink when a flash goes off on a camera. They think they are reacting to the flash, which is not possible (typical flash duration 1/700th second - blink reaction time, 1/5th second).
It's actually the sound of the camera shutter opening, which happens before the flash fires, that prompts them to blink.

Or alternatively, I'm talking a load of bollocks.

Oh, on the subject of getting old. How come no-one ever told us how crap you become as Tempus Fugits?
 
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Oh, on the subject of getting old. How come no-one ever told us how crap you become as Tempus Fugits?

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It's because they were too busy telling us how much older and wiser they were.
 
Baltic .....

I'll second that !!!


Well max is 20cms .......

It's nice to finish work, go home and if evening is nice ... drift of boating ... no worry about tide etc ......... Bliss.

It's funny that when I get back to UK - it actually makes life more interesting beating the tide-clock etc., but also can be a pain ..... ie - Cherbourg meet in September, because of the neaps ... I may have trouble putting boat back on berth !!!
 
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