Bill Higgins wrote: >There is a computer program available for tide tables. It covers every >location in N. America, C. America, Bahamas and Carribean. >The company is Tidelines

....... Actually Bill, there are quite a few companies that produce tide programs. Some really suck, with very DOS/ASCII graphic-like looks. On the other end of the scale is "Tides And Currents For Windows (version 2) put out by Nautical Software. After having used just about EVERY tide program out there for the PC, I heartily recommend it as it covers tides, currents, sun and moon rises and sets in a nice graphical format that prints out great. It also covers basically from now until the end of time, unlike some programs on the market, which only cover a year, then require you to re-up each January. Downside of the program is that it costs just under a cool $100. It is available at marine supply stores around the country.

Since most of the folks on this usenet group don't have a hundred for flashy tide charts, here's another idea: get tides off the web for free.

A couple of sites come to mind: http://aa.stanford.edu/~meholden/tideserver.html

And our friends at NOAA with: http://www-ceob.nos.noaa.gov/tidetext.html (for the text version)

or http://www-ceob.nos.noaa.gov/makepred.html (for a graphical version)

Also, for the extremely cheap, you can usually pick up a pocket tide book at your favorite fishing supply shop for either free (if you buy some nightcrawlers), or under a buck if they don't know you from Nanook.

Don't forget your local newspaper as a source, but up here in the Northwest, the metro papers have a 20% error rate for printing the wrong tide listings (seems they get it from some service back east).

--Bill Nelson surfer Tacoma, WA