Cape Cod, Massachusetts wood tide clock in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Cape Cod, Massachusetts Tide & Time Clock | Carved Birch Coastal Wall Clock

$ 84.00
16.5 in diameter
Birch, hand-stained water
Recessed layered face
Quartz tide and time movement, AA battery
Soundings: NOAA nautical survey data
How the Water Becomes Wood

One hand on this wall answers to the moon, not the hour.

  1. ChartThe recessed birch face carries the water's etched shoreline over a hand-stained sea.
  2. MovementA quartz mechanism turns the tide hand once every 12 hours and 25 minutes, the lunar tide cycle.
  3. Set onceAlign it at your local high tide, or at the full or new moon, and it tracks from there.
  4. NoteTide movements are offered for East Coast waters only; Gulf and West Coast tides run too irregular for a quartz mechanism.

A tide and time clock for Cape Cod: a 16.5 inch carved birch face showing the Cape's shoreline, with one movement keeping the hour and another tracking the pull of the moon.

Tide is the Cape's real schedule. Bayside flats at Brewster walk out nearly a mile at low water, Wellfleet's oyster beds work by the drop, and every harbor entrance from Sesuit to Stage has its opinion about when you should arrive. The tide hand rotates once every 12 hours and 25 minutes to match the lunar cycle, so after one setting against local high water it stays honest season after season.

For the mudroom of anyone whose day starts with the question of where the water is.

Pair it with the Cape Cod 3D chart for the full picture of what is under all that moving water.

  • 16.5 in diameter, tide and time movements
  • Set the tide hand 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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