Martha's Vineyard, 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 Martha's Vineyard tide clock in carved birch, 16.5 inches across, the island's shape etched at the center with a lunar-driven hand circling it.
On the Vineyard, tide decides things: whether the cut at Katama is passable, when the bass bite turns on at Wasque, how much beach exists at Lucy Vincent by afternoon. The currents between the island and the Elizabeths run hard enough to have earned every local's respect. This clock's hand makes one lap every 12 hours and 25 minutes, matched to the moon, so it holds the island's rhythm after a single setting at high water.
A fixture for the screen porch, next to the beach permit and the sandy shoes.
The island's harbors and shoals carry full relief on the Martha's Vineyard 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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