Narragansett Bay, carved into a tide and time clock

Tide on one hand, time on the other, over carved birch.

Regular price $ 128.00

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“Beautiful piece, expertly crafted. Packed well and arrived in perfect condition.”

Mark S., Hudson, OH. Verified buyer

A tide and time clock for Narragansett Bay: a 16.5 inch carved birch face with the bay's islands and passages etched in, one movement keeping the hour and another tracking the pull of the moon.

Details
Dimensions
16.5 in diameter
Material
Birch, hand-stained water
Build
Recessed layered face
Detail
Quartz tide and time movement, AA battery
Soundings
NOAA nautical survey data
About this piece

The bay sets Rhode Island's clock more than Rhode Island admits. Quahoggers work the flats on the drop, race nights out of the sailing towns are timed to the current through the East Passage, and the ramp at every harbor from Wickford to Newport has its hour. 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, while the time hands keep you on schedule for the bridge traffic.

Sized for the wall of anyone whose directions include which passage and which side.

The bay's full depths are stacked in birch on the Narragansett Bay 3D chart.

  • 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
Shipping and returns

Orders placed by 2 PM EST ship the next business day, free anywhere in the US, with tracking.

14-day returns if the size or frame is not right for the room.

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How the water becomes wood

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01
Chart
The recessed birch face carries the water's etched shoreline over a hand-stained sea.
02
Movement
A quartz mechanism turns the tide hand once every 12 hours and 25 minutes, the lunar tide cycle.
03
Set once
Align it at your local high tide, or at the full or new moon, and it tracks from there.
04
Note
Tide movements are offered for East Coast waters only; Gulf and West Coast tides run too irregular for a quartz mechanism.
One hand on this wall answers to the moon, not the hour.

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

The tide hand turns once every 12 hours and 25 minutes, the lunar cycle. Set it at your local high tide once and it tracks from there, over the carved, hand-stained shoreline of Narragansett Bay.

For the wall you pass on the way down to the water.

For the wall you pass on the way down to the water.

Mudroom, kitchen, the wall above the boat keys. Birch face, hand-stained sea, quartz movement, one AA battery, ready to hang.

From the people who hung one

15 reviews, 4.9 average

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