blah, blah, blah. jeffies, give it up and admit you don't know the difference
between a lock and a gate, or anything else.


From: "Jeff Morris"
Date: 10/23/2004 8:50 AM Eastern Standard Time
Message-id:

Sorry jax, you're wrong again as usual. If you understood the way tides
work, you
would know that currents driven by heights differences have a very short
slack time.

Is there no limit to your ignorance?

Have a good trip jaxie. Lets hope that this time you won't need to call the
Coast
Guard. And do leave the navigation to someone else. Someone who doesn't
get lost
with two GPS's on board.


"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
jeffies, *two* hours, but who's counting.

yo-yo, the gate is there to stop serious inflooding on a rising tide. That
and
that alone. no much inflooding except for about the middle two hours of
flood.

yuk-yuk, **IF** you have ever seen the canal you would have noticed -- even
you, jeffies -- that the gate is often not closed at all during flood.

why don't you go sailing sometime, jeffies. don't bother to ask me, for I
will
read any posts for at least a couple weeks. you see, I'm heading ESE for a
bit.

From: "Jeff Morris"
Date: 10/23/2004 8:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id:

Well, aside from the fact that its a lot close to twelve hours a day than
two
hours,
its exactly like I claimed it was. Jax, you were dead wrong and now you're
just
backpedaling.


"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
"The lock gates and tide gates are constructed so that tidal action
opens
them to
allow the current to set south through the canal and closes them to
prevent
water from
Shinnecock Bay to flow back into Great Peconic Bay."

in other words, they are gates open for all but about two hours a days
(if
that, and often not that for days at a time) only to flow from the
Atlantic
to
the Peconic.