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Old 09 February 2014, 19:27   #1
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Since tidal curves are an important tool for accurately predicting tide heights, why is it so difficult to find them outside of nautical almanacs? Surely, a single curve in an almanac won't last long if you're constantly using it and erasing marks, but the thickness of the almanac makes copying difficult!

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Since tidal curves are an important tool for accurately predicting tide heights, why is it so difficult to find them outside of nautical almanacs? Surely, a single curve in an almanac won't last long if you're constantly using it and erasing marks, but the thickness of the almanac makes copying difficult!

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A Scanner?

Scan the page, print it out, laminate it and Bob's yer uncle. Tickety boo.
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Since tidal curves are an important tool for accurately predicting tide heights, why is it so difficult to find them outside of nautical almanacs? Surely, a single curve in an almanac won't last long if you're constantly using it and erasing marks, but the thickness of the almanac makes copying difficult!

Am I missing something?

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Software/App?
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Scan the page, print it out, laminate it and Bob's yer uncle. Tickety boo.
Exactly what I do for teaching! Print them out to A4 size.


Oh, use last year's almanac and take outh pages you want. Or if you have the loose leaf version even easier.

I do the same with computation of rates tables
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Exactly what I do for teaching! Print them out to A4 size.


Oh, use last year's almanac and take outh pages you want. Or if you have the loose leaf version even easier.

I do the same with computation of rates tables
It gets a tad expensive with the Sight Reduction Tables though if you want to compute your sextant readings!
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I use an app too and my plotter's tide curves as a back up
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