Chuck Cox wrote:
richforman wrote:


I'd like having a small, inexpensive, specialized/stand-alone unit and
I'd be perfectly happy if it just gave me the times of the last and
next high tide wherever I am at the moment; that would be very helpful
to me for my pwc adventures even without any more detailed information
(current depth), and if that simplicity helped make it cheaper, that'd
be what I'd want. What I sometimes do is rip out of the newspaper
(Newsday), the half of the weather-forecast page that lists the day's
high and low tides in all the areas in the region and put it in a
little plastic baggie and put that in the glove compartment of my
waverunner....but sometimes I just forget to do that!


Thanks for your input.

Based on the feedback we've received, we're now considering dropping GPS
communications and going for a very small wrist-wearable (i.e. oversized
sports watch) package. You would manually select the reference station
from a scrolling list.

You can see the display he http://www.synchro.com/SCLCD.html. It is
a small display, so we can only display one thing at a time. I'd be
interested in what sort of info potential users might want displayed on
such a device.

Some of the things we could display:
time & date
reference station
countdown to next tide
time(s) of previous tide(s)
time(s) of next tide(s)
height(s) of previous tide(s)
height(s) of next tide(s)
circular tide-clock graph


When I retired 2.5 years ago, my union local gave me a tide clock for my
years of service as treasurer & acting president.
Mine id similar to "the most popular" unit, but is inserted into the
block of teak and mounted just inside my front door at home.
I'm amazed how accurate it stays...month after month. Can't remember the
last time I set it (year ago?)
http://www.downeaster.com/content/tides.aspx