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rget=3D"_blank">desolatechair@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br> </font> </d --001a1132ee3cc2d01704f194d5db Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Thinking about this a little more and I don't think your formula would quite work as tides are not symmetrical - they do not rise and fall exactly the same distance from low to high. It's probably close enough though! My trigonometry is pretty rusty but something like y=A sin(w) + D might work. On 3 February 2014 19:10, Shouty McShoutsalot <desolatechair@gmail.com>wrote: > I'd say keep an eye on it and if it's wet add a foot! ;-) > > > On 3 February 2014 15:39, Paul MacDonald <paulrita2001@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> In that case Jamie the rise on a fixed structure such as a wharf would >> as an example, the difference between 12 meters and 16 meters >> would be ( 16 - 12 ) / 2 = 2 meters. Still a good tide at Keppock! >> So should it be decided the wharf needed topping up, and at present >> it is designed to have a dry deck at 17 m and it was decided because >> of changing conditions it would need be safe to 19 m then an additional 1 >> m >> would need be added to the wharf. >> Does that sound right? >> Paul >> >> >> On Monday, February 3, 2014 1:26:25 PM, Shouty McShoutsalot < >> desolatechair@gmail.com> wrote: >> West Keppoch Paul, right across from the Blockhouse. Trout Point. I >> believe, as Jim noted, that 9.6 feet (or 16 m) would be the difference >> between low and high water. >> >> >> On 3 February 2014 12:18, Paul MacDonald <paulrita2001@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> And a great spot that is Jamie! >> even if the ides are only 9.6 feet! >> Near the Blockhouse I think - the spot where the >> fly of that name originated. Caught many a trout for me and >> * and I hope many more.* >> *My question is how is the height arrived at. Where is 0.0 meter?* >> *Is it the last low tide or is it some arbitrary mark?* >> *Enjoy the nice Feb weather* >> *Paul* >> >> >> On Monday, February 3, 2014 11:49:35 AM, Shouty McShoutsalot < >> desolatechair@gmail.com> wrote: >> My dad lives on the Northumberland Strait, just where Hillsborough Bay >> meets the mouth of the Charlottetown harbour. The tides there on the >> weekend were abnormally high at 9.6 feet - quite a difference from 16.2 >> meters! >> >> >> On 31 January 2014 13:09, James W. Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>wrote: >> >> >> *Subject: **big tide alert for today* >> >> According to the Blomidon Naturalists Society 2014 Calendar, on sale at >> various locations in the Wolfville-Greenwich-Port Williams area for $15, >> TODAY has the New Moon coinciding with a close perigee (short Earth-Moon >> distance), so that TOMORROW'S HIGH TIDE, the biggest tide of the year (fide >> Rick Whitman), is at 1 p.m. at Wolfville to Horton Bluff and measures 16.2 >> metres in amplitude (high tide to low tide height). You do the math to >> figure our how many yards or feet that equals. >> >> BNS Calendars are for sale in Wolfville at Herbin's Jewelry and Eos >> health-food store and Blomidon Inn, at Greenwich at Noggins and Hennigar's >> and other Farm Markets, in Port Williams at Shur Gain Feed & Seeds, etc.? >> >> And don't forget the Sheffield Mills EAGLE WATCH WEEDEND II on Saturday >> and Sunday. On Eagle Watch weekends there are usually 2 or 3 feedings >> per day at the feeding site at the north end of Middle Dyke Road (vs. one >> feeding a day during the week all winter long, courtesy of the Swetnam >> poultry business). I recommend occasional visits to the feeding site >> from 8 a.m. to 3 or even 4 p.m. >> >> Report your sightings to Jim at the Hall or on these Internet sites. >> >> A bunch of us biologists/naturalists will be making our first attempt at >> a 2014 count of bald eagles, other raptors, etc., on Sunday, Feb. 2, from >> 10 to 11 a.m. Last year we had 293 bald eagles, but it took three >> attempts. Some of the results will be posted at the Sheffield Mills >> Community Hall on Sunday, but it usually takes a couple of days to get the >> results from all of the 16 field parties. >> >> For the count we have assigned areas to cover, like a Christmas Count, >> and we cover roughly the same large area for both counts, from the base of >> the North Mountain south to Black River Lake, and from Avonport west to >> Kentville. >> >> Besides the area from Sheffield Mills to Canning and Kingsport, for the >> Eagle Watch check out the Gaspereau Valley, and east of Wolfville to Grand >> Pre, North Grand Pre, Hortonville, and Avonport, plus along the whole >> length of Middle Dyke Road from New Minas to the north end. >> >> Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jamie Simpson >> Hantsport, NS >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jamie Simpson >> Hantsport, NS >> >> >> > > > -- > Jamie Simpson > Hantsport, NS > -- Jamie Simpson Hantsport, NS --001a1132ee3cc2d01704f194d5db Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr">Thinking about this a little more and I don't think yo= ur formula would quite work as tides are not symmetrical - they do not rise= and fall exactly the same distance from low to high. =A0It's probably = close enough though! =A0My trigonometry is pretty rusty but something like = y=3DA sin(w) + D might work.</div> <div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On 3 February= 2014 19:10, Shouty McShoutsalot <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:de= solatechair@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">desolatechair@gmail.com</a>></s= pan> wrote:<br> <blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p= x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr">I'd say keep an eye on = it and if it's wet add a foot! =A0;-)</div><div class=3D"HOEnZb"><div c= lass=3D"h5"> <div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On 3 February= 2014 15:39, Paul MacDonald <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:paulrit= a2001@yahoo.com" target=3D"_blank">paulrita2001@yahoo.com</a>></span> wr= ote:<br> <blockq