TIME &TIDE
To a landlubber, the tide is a complete mystery, but to the sailor, it has a huge influence on how a stretch of water will behave, where you might anchor and even whether you will be able to retrieve the boat from the ramp after a spot of fishing.
Tides are not simple things. They are instead beset by all manner of eccentricities and quirks. The sun, moon and earth, which cause most of the tidal effect, do not orbit in perfect circles. They dip and wobble – sometimes in sync, but mostly not.
When they pass overhead it is felt in the oceans, sometimes, as a confusion of
