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Default Seamanship Question #32

Walt wrote:
Capt. Scumbalino wrote:

It's based on the pretty-much universal fact that the time for the
tide to change from high to low water, and vice-versa, is pretty
close to six hours.


Universal, if your universe consists of only places with semi-diurnal
tides. That's the majority, granted, but not everywhere has
semi-diurnal tides.

You might want to get out more.


You might want to try and comprehend the qualifier "pretty-much".


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Capt Scumbalino