Tide and Current tables online

[Dave Williams]

Anyone know of a site on the web to find tide and current tables. More specifically for the San Juan Islands in Wa. state.

This will be my first trip over this season and I don't have local source for tables. Knowing what the currents are doing would aid trip planning.

Thanks,
Dave

[Bruce Hooke]

http://tbone.biol.sc.edu/tide/sitesel.html

[KAIROS]

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/weather/tides/

Hello Dave. I live on Orcas. See you out there. :)

[Thorne]

I found the printed tide books that have the big arrows for big tides, smaller to medium arrows for other tides to be VASTLY superior to any sort of numbers -- the tides are so complex that you need all the help you can get.

If you aren't boating, not such a big deal. But if you are on the water in the San Juans, you may find it helpful to be able to "see" how tides swirl around some of the islands, going south when the rest of the tide is going north.

Here are a few online resources -

http://www.saltwatertides.com/dynamic.dir/washingtonsites.html

[KAIROS]

I found the printed tide books that have the big arrows for big tides, smaller to medium arrows for other tides to be VASTLY superior to any sort of numbers -- the tides are so complex that you need all the help you can get.

I believe Thorne is referring to the current atlas, a Canadian publication. Yes, very helpful, and after you use it a while you can probably just use the tide table again since you'll have the general idea. It seems very accurate in constricted areas such as passes, and less accurate in open water.

[Dave Williams]

Thanks for the links guys;very helpful. As to current tables being somewhat general you are absolutey right. I have hundreds of days sailing ,rowing, paddling in the San Juans, Gulf Islands and north to be thankful for ,always engineless. Working the currents and eddies and back eddies is really a big part of the fun.

KAIROS,

We'll be launching sometime next Tuesday from Washington park and head up Rosaria Strait. Thats why I need a general idea of when flood will be happening. No particular plan beyond that except have to be home on Sunday. We're in a 22ft open boat with a spritsail rig and two sets of oars so if you're on the water and see anyone looking like us swing by and say Hi.

Here's to kindness,
Dave

[Hal Forsen]

http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/data_menu.shtml?stn=9443090%20Neah%20Bay,%20WA&type=Tide%20Data

HF

[Theodora]

Here's another.

http://www02.coconet.com:8080/locations/1534.html