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Tide times (resources)?

Ladfromtad

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Afternoon folks

Hope you all had a good Christmas Day 🎄
Quick question???

Tide times!
When I was a youngster I used to get a tiny book with high/low times.
In this modern digital age, which resources do you generally go to?
(Looking online there seems to be dozens!)

Any thoughts would be appreciated

:)
 
Happy boxing day Tad Lad!

As mentioned, Tides4fishing is quite useful, but I have seen people say that they are sometimes inaccurate.

Living in a Naval port, I tend to use the Kings Harbour Master shipping list for the current & next day, as they list accurate local tide times too.


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I tend to use Tides for Fishing to give a general idea when H & L tides also the height as well. Found it to be a bit out, easier than a trip to see what is happening. Also use Skyline webcam to see what state the sea is in.
 
I use the Barmouth Yacht Club web site, gives web cam, tides weather. Does me for the area and further up coast as it is the same.

Also got 12 mth tables with Yacht Club i am with, in little book.

I used to but the small Liverpool Tide table book and then calculate different times for different areas, but all seems a lot easier now on the net.
 
Since it's Christmas, perhaps some more food (for thought) is in order.

I quite like the Admiralty site. For example, the tides for Bridlington are here: https://easytide.admiralty.co.uk/?PortID=0181
The BBC site is similar: https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast-and-sea/tide-tables/3/181
These guys are something similar and go further into the future: https://www.tide-forecast.com/locations/Bridlington/tides/latest
Tides4fishing is also good, as has been mentioned: https://www.tide-forecast.com/locations/Bridlington/tides/latest

I like their use of tidal coefficients. Once you get used to them it's a good way of understanding the size of the tide. The French seem to use this a lot, but for some reason it isn't commonly used here.

I find it easier when there's a graphical representation of tide height rather than just the times and heights.

If you're feeling rich and want a paid-for solution I like Bellfield Software's Tideplotter software. It's aimed at yachting folks but obviously the basic tide data is the same. One advantage here is that you can get tidal data that goes much further into the future which is useful for planning holidays or longer fishing trips.
 
Tides4fishing can be shit as way out at times.

Plus it’s full of unnecessary and dubious info you don’t need.

tidetimes.org is good but only gives you a week or so ahead.
However they do give you an option to buy an actual booklet for the different ports although how that works or makes any money as a one off order I’m not sure? Maybe there’s a minimum numbers?

I’ve never tried as buy the local area book which also gives adjustment times for up the BC to avonmouth. Can pick that up at most local shops, garages etc around the area.
 
Valleyboy said:
Magic seaweed can be handy if it covers the locality or near the one you want giving swell sizes, and wave direction useful for fishing rock marks or surf beaches
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I’ve noticed they do increasingly want you to pay for the app now for a lot of the info/web cams etc though?
 
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