Ponce Inlet, Florida Tide & Time 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 Ponce Inlet tide and time clock in carved birch: the inlet, the lighthouse, and the New Smyrna shoreline etched on the face, with paired movements keeping the hour and the tide.
Ponce Inlet runs on the tide's opinion. The bar shifts, the current through the jetties swings with the cycle, and the surfers, anglers, and tour boats all consult the same tables under the gaze of Florida's tallest lighthouse. The tide hand turns once every 12 hours and 25 minutes with the moon, set once against local high water and trusted after that.
For the wall between the garage and the boat, where the day's real decisions happen.
The inlet's whole water system is printed and layered on the New Smyrna Beach UV map.
- 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
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- 14-day returns
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