Sarasota to Englewood, 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 tide and time clock for the Sarasota coast: a carved birch face with the shoreline from Sarasota Bay down to Englewood etched in, one movement keeping the hour and another tracking the pull of the moon.
This stretch of the Gulf runs on its passes. Big Pass and New Pass feed Sarasota Bay, Venice Inlet lets the Intracoastal breathe, and Stump Pass drains Lemon Bay past Manasota Key, and every one of them fishes, swims, and boats differently on the push than on the drain. 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.
For the wall of a Siesta Key rental, a Venice condo, or anywhere the day's first question is whether the sandbar is out.
The heart of this coast is carved in relief on the Siesta Key 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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