Long Island Sound 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 Long Island Sound tide clock: the Sound's long reach carved into a 16.5 inch birch face, with a lunar-cycle hand tracking the water that eight million people live beside.
The Sound breathes twice a day through its eastern gates, and everyone on it plans around the fact: the current at The Race can outrun a sailboat, the western Sound stacks bigger ranges than the east, and every harbor bar from Norwalk to Northport has its hour. The tide hand rotates once every 12 hours and 25 minutes, matched to the moon, holding local rhythm after a single setting at high water.
For the hall of a shoreline house or the office of someone whose real calendar is the current tables.
The whole waterway is carved in relief on the Long Island Sound 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