Where to download tide tables?

[Gedimin]

I'm planning the first long cruise (over a week) and keen to practice digital-free passage planning. Already have a great pilot book and charts, but really hesitant to buy chunky and expensive Reeds Almanac just to get tides for standard ports. I only need detailed tables for Dover and Plymouth, plus possibly Poole and Southampton.
Numerous websites offer 7 day predictions only. I find it very strange given it is computed data and it is widely available as printed copies in many marinas. Any advice where to download it so that I could just print it at home?

 

[BarrytheViking]

This site gives 3 months of predictions:
Tide & Time ~ The next Three Months Tide Table

 

[jwilson]

For advance planning WXTIDE32.COM is really useful. Don't trust it for exact times, especially for weird places like the Solent or Poole, but for most places it will usually match local tide tables or Reeds/Admiralty adequately closely for planning purposes.

 

[doug748]

I'm planning the first long cruise (over a week) and keen to practice digital-free passage planning. Already have a great pilot book and charts, but really hesitant to buy chunky and expensive Reeds Almanac just to get tides for standard ports. I only need detailed tables for Dover and Plymouth, plus possibly Poole and Southampton.
Numerous websites offer 7 day predictions only. I find it very strange given it is computed data and it is widely available as printed copies in many marinas. Any advice where to download it so that I could just print it at home?

MontyMariner - Fellow of this establishment - LadyinBed, publishes a lot of useful stuff:

Sailing with Monty Mariner


I recommend you also get Reeve-Fowkes:

Stanford's Tidal Atlas - English Channel West by Reeve-fowkes, Michael: Good Paperback (1986) Reprint. | Compass Books

Once you have the relevant Dover times and heights (or, for the current publications, Cherbourg) it gives you, with usable accuracy, times, heights and much more for most of the rest of the Channel. Forever.


Without doubt one of the best fivers you could ever spend.

.

 

[PetiteFleur]

I use Quick Tides, you pay for it - £7.99 but lasts 2 yrs. See:- quicktides.co.uk

 

[RJJ]

I found a good French site called Marine Metro Consult which goes a month in advance, and also gives the coefficients for Channel Islands, and goes down to pretty local ports. You can easily save as screenshots on your tablet or laptop.

 

[Simon 420]

Free charts, tide tables and pilotage : from Visit My Harbour

Fantastic resource, tides for the whole country for a year, and really useful stuff on just about every port/harbour, togetherwith charts for the country

Not at all expensive - When I joined up it was £25 for lifetime membership

 

[Jamie Dundee]

I use Imray Tide Planner. £3.99 per year plus a one off £5.99 payment to the UKHO for full access. Very customisable (?) and you can set your minimum depth requirement for your location/destination. Not exactly digital free but you can print the info if you prefer.

 

[[70521]]

I download the Dover tide times, and have a list of differences on Dover. There is also a free app called Tide Times that I find accurate enough.

 

[JumbleDuck]

I have a tide clock on my bulkhead. It's set to Greenock at the moment, which is good for anywhere on the Clyde to within 30 minutes or so.

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

Numerous websites offer 7 day predictions only. I find it very strange given it is computed data and it is widely available as printed copies in many marinas. Any advice where to download it so that I could just print it at home?

Free seven day tide tables, are widely available, as these data are released by the UKHO on a rolling basis, but anyone wanting to print tables for a longer period has to pay a copyright fee, this is why you have to pay for printed or online tables.

 

[LadyInBed]

MontyMariner - Fellow of this establishment - LadyinBed, publishes a lot of useful stuff:

Thanks Doug. Yes, I have Poole and Dover tides for this year - Tide Tables : Monty Mariner
Gedimin - you might also be interested in the Tide Stream Charts : Monty Mariner

 

[HissyFit]

For a simple, free tide predictor, try the British Hydrological Office:

Easytide

 

[Malish]

Please correct me if I am wrong -

My recollection regarding having an almanac on board is that its contents also satisfies a number of the requirements of the SOLAS regulations for leisure sailors

More to them that just the tide tables..

 

[Momac]

Tides and solunar charts for fishing in England in 2020
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Marine Weather : free 14-day forecasts - METEO CONSULT MARINE

 

[HissyFit]

Please correct me if I am wrong -

My recollection regarding having an almanac on board is that its contents also satisfies a number of the requirements of the SOLAS regulations for leisure sailors

More to them that just the tide tables..

True, but all those things can be had much cheaper by cutting up an old almanac, laminating it for keeping and then looking up to things that go out of date, such as the tides and weather online.

 

[[163233]]

I always liked the BBC tide times format. I think they only do a few days in advance though.
Importantly they often agreed with the guys who ran the gate at Fleetwood.

 

[Malish]

True, but all those things can be had much cheaper by cutting up an old almanac, laminating it for keeping and then looking up to things that go out of date, such as the tides and weather online.

indeed, and the original request may have only been for tide tables away from the boat. I felt it was worth highlighting to the op that an almanac on a boat serves other purposes, just in case he did not possess one.

 

[LoneHort]

@Gedimin the French have a years worth of tides including a lot of the UK ports available here
Horaires de marées gratuits du SHOM that you can print out.
Hope this helps

 

[billcole]

www.tides4fishing.com/uk will give you tides up to the end of the year.



Edit....Sorry, I just saw MartynG already linked to that in Post 15