Block Island, Rhode Island Wood Tide Clock | Carved Birch Coastal Wall Clock
How the Water Becomes Wood
One hand on this wall answers to the moon, not the hour.
- ChartThe recessed birch face carries the water's etched shoreline over a hand-stained sea.
- MovementA quartz mechanism turns the tide hand once every 12 hours and 25 minutes, the lunar tide cycle.
- Set onceAlign it at your local high tide, or at the full or new moon, and it tracks from there.
- NoteTide movements are offered for East Coast waters only; Gulf and West Coast tides run too irregular for a quartz mechanism.
A Block Island tide clock in carved birch, 16.5 inches, the island's outline etched at center while a single hand keeps the moon's schedule.
Block Island life organizes itself around water levels: the channel into Great Salt Pond, the state of the ramp at Payne's, whether the sandbar off the beach is a walk or a swim. Out here the ferry and the fog get the headlines, but the tide runs the day. The hand turns once every 12 hours and 25 minutes with the lunar cycle, so one setting against local high water keeps it true through the whole season and the quiet winter after.
Hang it by the door that leads to the mooring dinghy.
The island's bluffs, ponds, and rips carry full relief on the Block Island 3D chart.
- 16.5 in diameter, quartz tide movement
- Set once at local high tide
- Laser-etched birch face, AA battery, ready to hang
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Live from the water