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Old 12-18-2012, 02:49 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by FlyWright View Post
That's this engineer's take on it anyway.
WHAT?

OK... when would take a 2 NM trip... and go so slow that THE TIDES are a problem for you. (you're making trawlers look bad around the world)

We originally were talking about maximum range and accounting for the tides on long (Inside Passage types of runs)

Here's another for you (engineering problem)

I get up in the morning and notice that if I wait 2 hours to get started... I can catch the Slack tide ahead of the flood... the flood itself... and then the slack before the Ebb tide starts.

I can take advantage of all three, run for 6 hours and never have a problem. (plus have an extra two hours to enjoy my coffee)

Each day, there are two high tides and two low tides (about 12 hours, 25 minutes apart). Therefore... at worst, I'd have to wait 4 hours (& 12 minutes) to miss whichever I wanted to avoid and take advantage of the other.
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