T&T: Current Direction & Flow Predictions

[Alsgarage@aol.com]

For a current predicting software program, try http://www.goflow.com
Have not used, but have run their demo.  Looks promising.
 
Not affiliated in any way, etc.
 
 
Regards,

Al Townsend
M/V Pelican
Deltaville,  VA
alsgarage@aol.com

 
In a message dated 9/14/2006 12:01:30 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
trawlers-and-trawlering-request@lists.samurai.com writes:

Hello  All;

I'm getting ready to  make a run up to Philadelphia from
Baltimore this weekend and would like to  ask the brain trust to help me
on a few points. First any recommendations  for marinas near the center
of town in Philly, and since we will probably  be leaving Baltimore
around 8 pm Sat. night a good place to stay on or near  the C&D canal. I
like running at night but not ALL night and I don't  want to go all the
way through to the Delaware.

The second and more important question is what resources  are
out there to figure out the currents and tides for the trip? When  I
brought the boat down from Canada it was any easy run up from Cape  May,
through the Canal and Home, but I have heard horror stories about  being
in the wrong place at the wrong time. I have pretty much been a  Bay
sailor all my life and tides and currents do not really play a big  role
here unless you need to clear a channel at high tide. I would like  to
plan the trip to use the currents to my advantage or at least be  aware
of what lies ahead. I have Nobeltec VNS 6.5, but I've only really  played
with the current calculator and then only in real time, not  planning. I
ASSUMED I could Google a table that gave tides and currents for  the C&D,
and Delaware but I have come up scratch. I have tide  information for the
upper Chesapeake but not currents. I've always read the  posts from the
folks in the NE and PNW about channels that you need to time  just right
and always wondered how you knew what the time was, or the Log  racers
who could calculate current offsets and adjust. This has always been  on
my list of things to learn, and this trip has brought it into focus  for
me. Maybe this is a stupid newbie question, but as I always tell  my
students when I'm teaching "the only stupid question is the one  you
DON"T  ask"



Thanks,

Thos.