Boston Harbor, Massachusetts 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 Boston Harbor tide clock: 16.5 inches of carved birch with the harbor islands etched across the face and a single hand tracking the water's twice-daily rise and fall.
Boston's tides are serious business, routinely running nine to ten feet, enough to change what the harbor is: flats appear off the islands, ramps go steep at the marinas, and the currents through the channels swing with the cycle. The tide hand rotates on the 12 hour 25 minute lunar rhythm, so one setting against a local high keeps it tracking through the seasons.
It reads at a glance from across the room, which is exactly what you want before deciding whether to walk the flats at Spectacle or wait an hour.
The harbor's full geography, all 34 islands of it, lives on the Boston Harbor 3D chart.
- 16.5 in diameter, quartz tide movement
- Set once at local high tide
- Laser-etched birch face, AA battery, ready to hang
- Free next-business-day shipping on orders placed by 2 PM EST
- 14-day returns
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