timjet
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Having been a sail-boater and cruising the SW Florida area with our shallow water and narrow channels, I probably should be an expert on tide prediction. However I'm not and I found the few times I did run aground to be pretty non-eventful. With practice it's pretty easy to get a sailboat off a soft bottom without any help. The mast makes a good lever to tilt the boat, something not available to us mast-less motor boaters.
So before I get into trouble, I thought it would be a good idea to brush up on the use of the tide tables. But I got to thinking, with all the phone apps and many GPS's with tide tables installed does anybody ever use the tide tables anymore?
So what apps do you guys use for your iphone and androids? And can these apps give tide heights at your specific location without interpolation? Can you specify a lat/long and get tides or better yet can you slew the cursor to a point and get tide info at that point?
So before I get into trouble, I thought it would be a good idea to brush up on the use of the tide tables. But I got to thinking, with all the phone apps and many GPS's with tide tables installed does anybody ever use the tide tables anymore?
So what apps do you guys use for your iphone and androids? And can these apps give tide heights at your specific location without interpolation? Can you specify a lat/long and get tides or better yet can you slew the cursor to a point and get tide info at that point?