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Tide times...help needed!
Airborne - 5-6-2004 at 20:18

I have this casio sea-pathfinder watch. It tells the moon and tide positions/phases etc. but to do this it needs to have the place which you want to find the tide for's information. The information needed is: -

1) Longitude
2) Latitude
3)Lunitidal Interval
4)GMT Differential (Standard Time or Daylight Saving Time/Summer)

I want to find out the tide times for Ilfracombe which will give me tides for the area of North Devon, eg. Croyde Bay. I already know the Longitude and Latitude, but hav no idea what the Lunitidal Interval and GMT Differential is for Ilfracombe.

If anyone has any idea of what it is or what i'm talking about please reply. Any help would be great.

Thanks.
Airborne.

justal - 7-6-2004 at 05:53

Lunitidal Interval for Ilfracombe is 5:36

GMT Differential will be +1 hr for BST at the moment.

Al.

Thodd - 7-6-2004 at 09:24

hi airborne....

a much simpler answer..... you can buy a tide time book for croyde in most of the shops there! only £1 for 12 months of tide times! ..... a bargain!

Airborne - 19-6-2004 at 19:11

thanks thodd for that but i already have it for this year! And it would be nice for me to look at my watch at school and say;
"oh look its high tide right now at croyde...how i'd love to be there, but instead im stuck here "listening" to a teacher!"

Thanks for that justal, how did you get that?
And why did you give me +1 hr, do i have to add it to 5:35 to get 6:35 or something, and what is BST?

Cheers, soz about the late reply.

justal - 19-6-2004 at 19:12

British Summer Time

Airborne - 19-6-2004 at 19:19

ok, but do i ADD an hour to the lunitidal interval you gave me to get 6:35 or leave it at 5:35?

justal - 19-6-2004 at 19:37

No, the lunitidal interval stays at 5:35, but you also wanted to know what the GMT differential was... that will be GMT +1 hr until 31st October when the clocks go back and it will be GMT (which means you'll probably have to set it to ±0). The lunitidal interval is the is the time interval between the moons transit and the next high water, which always stays the same for a given location.

Al.

Airborne - 19-6-2004 at 20:56

SORTED! Thanks a lot Al i'll get straight to it! (Setting the watch i mean!)?


Cheers again.

Dave - 21-6-2004 at 11:37

Now - I could say "if you spent more time listening to the teacher instead of dreaming of Croyde"; but then teachers don't teach anything good - like how to work out tide times; which sail to use in what wind; which fin to use, etc.

Airborne - 26-6-2004 at 14:30

LOL! I agree....i reckon that would be more useful then the normal things we learn.