Nantucket, 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 Nantucket tide clock: the island carved and etched into a 16.5 inch birch face, with one patient hand following the moon around it.
Nantucket's tides are gentler than the mainland's, but nobody who runs the harbor entrance or walks the flats off Coatue treats them casually; the water moves sideways here even when it barely moves up and down, and the rips off Great Point are the island's standing reminder. The tide hand completes its circle every 12 hours and 25 minutes on the lunar cycle, keeping honest time with the water after one setting at local high.
It belongs where the beach chairs and rod holders live, stating the only schedule that matters.
The island's full shoals and harbors are carved in depth on the Nantucket 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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