Standard Ports

Tidal Curve
Secondary Ports
Tidal heights Standard Ports

Tide tables
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affect the compass,
(standard) ports suchfor
asinstance...
Port Victoria

VICTORIA

VICTORIA
Tidal heights Standard Ports

The tide
...for tablesThursday
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3rd January
!about the times and heights of high and
low water...

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Tidal heights Standard Ports

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timeofoftide
HW
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for time
heights
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LWusing
for the
Victoria...
Tidal Curve
!
Tidal heights Standard Ports

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By selecting
possible
the
toappropriate
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timeofoftide
HW
andathe
for time
heights
of ourofchoosing,
HW and LW
by using
for the
Victoria...
Tidal Curve
!
Tidal heights Standard Ports

What will be the height of tide at Victoria

on Thursday 3rd January at 1540 UT?
Tidal heights Standard Ports

Enter HW time and fill in the boxes for

each hour after HW

1301 1401 1501 1601 1701 1801 1901

Tidal heights Standard Ports

Mark indraw
...and the heights of HW and
a line between LW...
them

1301 1401 1501 1601 1701 1801 1901

Tidal heights Standard Ports

In this
Find
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...then
...continue
1540
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line
drawUT
the
upwards
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itofmeets
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scale
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thebe
curve...
line...
approximately 3.7m at 1540 UT

(1540 UT
approx)

1301 1401 1501 1601 1701 1801 1901

Tidal heights Standard Ports

...when
It’s also possible
will the height
to find of
outtide
when
at Victoria
a
specific
fall to 2.5
height
metres?
of tide will occur...

1301 1401 1501 1601 1701 1801 1901

Tidal heights Standard Ports

Draw
In thisaexample
...then line
...continue
drawdown from
across
the
to the
height
to
the
meet HW
bottom
of
the scale
tide willuntil
scale
curve...
fall
it meets
to 2.5m at the HW/LW line...1640 UT
approximately

1301 1401 1501 1601 1701 1801 1901

Tidal heights Standard Ports

...the unbroken
A decision had tored
be line
made representing
regarding
Springs, or the
which part broken
of the curveblue line for
to use...
Neaps

1301 1401 1501 1601 1701 1801 1901

Tidal heights Standard Ports

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...is
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the –mean
0.8m =was used
4.9m on this
range
range...
occasion, because the range for this time
period...

1301 1401 1501 1601 1701 1801 1901

 TIDAL CURVE

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 TIDAL CURVE
Use curve to find:
Height of tide at Dartmouth at 1415

Look up time and height of HW Dartmouth and height of LW

HW Dartmouth 1815 BST 4.8m LW 0.7m
Is it Neaps or Springs? Close to Springs
15

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 TIDAL CURVE

HW Dartmouth 1815 BST 4.8m LW 0.7m

HW height 4.8m entered here

LW height 0.7m entered here

16

4/6/13 SailCork NavNotes c

 TIDAL CURVE

HW Dartmouth 1815 BST 4.8m LW 0.7m

Draw a line joining the points

17

4/6/13 SailCork NavNotes c

 TIDAL CURVE
HW Dartmouth 1815 BST 4.8m LW 0.7m

Write time of HW in box below

1815

18

4/6/13 SailCork NavNotes c

 TIDAL CURVE
HW Dartmouth 1815 BST 4.8m LW 0.7m

Draw vertical line from 1415

to spring curve

1415 1515 1615 1715 1815

19

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 TIDAL CURVE
HW Dartmouth 1815 BST 4.8m LW 0.7m

Draw horizontal line from

curve to diagonal line

1415 1515 1615 1715 1815

20

4/6/13 SailCork NavNotes c

 TIDAL CURVE

Height of tide at 1415 = 2.9m

Draw perpendicular to HW line

1415 1515 1615 1715 1815

21

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SECONDARY PORTS 1
Secondary ports Secondary Ports

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and
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Secondary ports Secondary Ports

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as the
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a secondary port

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Corrections Secondary Ports

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for
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instance...
Almanacs
Corrections Secondary Ports

If HW Namley
Ferrous metal Harbour
and magnetic
is at 0000
fieldsorwill
affectUT
1200 thethen
compass,
HW Farlow
for instance...
will be 40
minutes earlier
Corrections Secondary Ports

If HW Namley
Ferrous metal Harbour
and magnetic
is at 0600
fieldsorwill
affectUT
1800 thethen
compass,
HW Farlow
for instance...
will be 18
minutes earlier
Corrections Secondary Ports

If LW Namley
Ferrous metalHarbour
and magnetic
is at 0000
fields
orwill
affectUT
1200 thethen
compass,
LW Farlow
for instance...
will be 10
minutes earlier
Corrections Secondary Ports

If LW Namley
Ferrous metalHarbour
and magnetic
is at 0600
fields
orwill
affectUT
1800 thethen
compass,
LW Farlow
for instance...
will be 20
minutes earlier
Corrections Secondary Ports

If HW Namley
Ferrous metal Harbour
and magnetic
is 4.0m
fields
(Springs)
will
affectHW
then theFarlow
compass,
will for
be instance...
4.7m
Corrections Secondary Ports

If HW Namley
Ferrous metal Harbour
and magnetic
is 3.4m
fields
(Neaps)
will
affectHW
then theFarlow
compass,
will for
be instance...
3.7m
Corrections Secondary Ports

If LW Namley
Ferrous metalHarbour
and magnetic
is 1.1mfields
(Neaps)
will
affectLW
then the
Farlow
compass,
will for
be 1.8m
instance...
Corrections Secondary Ports

If LW Namley
Ferrous metalHarbour
and magnetic
is 0.4mfields
(Springs)
will
affectLW
then the
Farlow
compass,
will for
be 0.6m
instance...
SECONDARY PORTS 2
Interpolation Secondary Ports

...but
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if metal
you
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want
and
to estimate
to
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you can
the
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instance...
Interpolation Secondary Ports

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What the
metal
the
tidaltimes
and
information
magnetic
and heights
for
fields
of the
will
affect
tide
Namley
atthe
Farlow
Harbour
compass,
on thefor
afternoon
instance...
of
Thursday 16th May?
Interpolation Secondary Ports

Return
Go
Select
to the
the
to tidal
the
information
differences
information
for for
the
forFarlow
Namley Harbour
afternoon of Thursday 16th May
 Interpolation Secondary Ports

800
1

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HW
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Then time
aa
read
parallel
the
example
graph
straight
(1404
time
offand
the
line
of
UT)
line
approximately
insert
HW
difference
from
falls
from
Namley
the
the
between
the1800
relevant
for
1800
Harbour
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Farlow
to
1200
minutes
to-18
the
and
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information
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(1404)
line the 1404
the differences
time for Farlow
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Interpolation Secondary Ports

The time of LW and the heights of HW

and LW can be dealt with in a similar
way