Cape Fear, carved into a tide and time clock
Tide on one hand, time on the other, over carved birch.
“Beautiful piece, expertly crafted. Packed well and arrived in perfect condition.”
Mark S., Hudson, OH. Verified buyer
A tide and time clock for Cape Fear: a 16.5 inch carved birch face with the mouth of the Cape Fear River etched in, from Southport and Bald Head Island out to the cape, 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 Cape Fear River is one of the few on the East Coast that runs straight into the open Atlantic, and the tide decides everything at its mouth: the current through the inlet at Bald Head, the water over Frying Pan Shoals, and the fishing off Oak Island and Kure Beach. 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 keeps the rhythm, while the time hands cover everything the water does not decide.
Right for a Southport porch, a Bald Head cottage, or a Wilmington boater who checks the river before the weather.
The whole state shoreline is carved in relief on the North Carolina Coast 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
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 Cape Fear.
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.
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