Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island 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 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.
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
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- 14-day returns
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