When`s low tide ??

[Shewie]

Maybe one for the SOTP boys but ...

Is there somewhere online I can find out when the low tide is for a certain area of UK coast? When we go to Scotland for our 4 dayer in a couple of weeks I want to try and arrive at campsite 1 at low tide for some seafood foraging.
If there is how far forward does the forecast go ??

ta

Rich

 

[Tadpole]

Maybe one for the SOTP boys but ...

Is there somewhere online I can find out when the low tide is for a certain area of UK coast? When we go to Scotland for our 4 dayer in a couple of weeks I want to try and arrive at campsite 1 at low tide for some seafood foraging.
If there is how far forward does the forecast go ??

ta

Rich

http://www.pol.ac.uk/ntslf/tidalp.html

 

[scanker]

I tend to use the BBC. Same results I guess.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast/tides/

Worth noting tide tables are in GMT, you'll have to take off an hour for BST.

 

[Shewie]

Cheers guys, just the job


Rich

 

[JonnyP]

I tend to use the BBC. Same results I guess.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast/tides/

Worth noting tide tables are in GMT, you'll have to take off an hour for BST.

As we didn't get a summer this year, do we still need to take off an hour..?

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

Make sure it's a spring low eg very low say 0.5m on the range, better for razorclams and kelps.

Nick

 

[Greg]

With tide tables at this time of year, well until the 26th Oct anyway, you have to add on an hour for BST not take it away!

 

[scanker]

You're right I think. I always get it the wrong way about!

 

[Greg]

Its a good idea to know these things in my job working on a major oil shipping jetty especially with crude tankers!

 

[scottishwolf]

http://easytide.ukho.gov.uk/EasyTide/EasyTide/index.aspx

Easytide is much better. Remember to ADD 1 hour for BST. Tell you how and explains why on the site.

 

[pothunter]

If you arrive at low water you will have limited time before the tide pushes you back in, plan to arrive some time after high water follow the tide out making note of the high ground and how gutters empty. Watch for sign's of the turning tide such a scum on the water movement of crows off the tide line and the smell of fresh salt, when the tide turns unless you know the mudflats and saltings get off using the high ground you identified on the way out.

Happy foraging, Pothunter.

 

[Shewie]

So it looks like low tide is going to be around 11 a.m which means we`ve got to be setting off from Yorkshire around 4:30 - 5 a.m.

I think we might be catching it on the second day

 

[Greg]

I agree with Pothunter, it will give you a good 6hrs then to follow the tide before it turns, although in the last 1/2 hr to an hour the tide goes flat which is the signal that it will soon be on the turn. I would aim to head back for shore at this point, especially if you don't no the area very well.
Spring tides (the big tides) will allow you more access to the area but when they turn they can be quite fast for the first 2-3 hours so you have to be careful.

 

[Greg]

So it looks like low tide is going to be around 11 a.m which means we`ve got to be setting off from Yorkshire around 4:30 - 5 a.m.

I think we might be catching it on the second day

Have you taken into account the clocks going back on Friday! So therefore you can read the time straight from the tide table booklet you have without altering them!

 

[Shewie]

I agree with Pothunter, it will give you a good 6hrs then to follow the tide before it turns, although in the last 1/2 hr to an hour the tide goes flat which is the signal that it will soon be on the turn. I would aim to head back for shore at this point, especially if you don't no the area very well.
Spring tides (the big tides) will allow you more access to the area but when they turn they can be quite fast for the first 2-3 hours so you have to be careful.

Thanks Greg

 

[Greg]

Thanks Greg

Your welcome mate!

 

[Shewie]

Have you taken into account the clocks going back on Friday! So therefore you can read the time straight from the tide table booklet you have without altering them!

Not until next month though Greg, 26th of Octbober I thought.

Hopefully I should be back by then, unless I go all Dick Pronneke and build myself a cabin somewhere.

 

[nodd]

I find the Quicktide tide table to be quite good the one i have at the moment goes to 2009and covers the whole of the north of England and Scotland www.quicktide.co.uk I will be making good use of it this week,of to the North west coast of Scotland on wedensday for 4 days .