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If I remember correctly, Seiko made one for surfers where the watch will show high and low tides timings. Not sure how accurate it is, but then how accurate do you need it to be. It is probably close the the half hour rather than the minute.
Nice gadget me thinks, have always looked at them but never actually bought one for myself.
I have one of the Casios.
Solar powered and all.
Biggest pain is it only tells the tide in one spot.
If I wanted the tide times in one spot it'll be great.
Pity I fish lots of spots
Oh forgot....it's got the moon phases as well as the time, date blah blah blah
I find I'm still going to the tide tables to get the deviation for different spots....might as well read the chart while I'm there I suppose
Last edited by finga; 11-07-2007 at 04:46 PM.
Reason: more to say :)
I've got a Casio fishing watch that tells me moon phases and almanac type best hours of the day and best days of the month, no tides but does give sun rise and set and moon rise and set.
Gimmicky but handy for best days of the month and times of the day. I assume you could derive tides from moon rise/set but I haven't done the maths on that
What would be handy is a gps watch you simply push a button to record a waypoint. Imagine how many times you have passed over some structure and not had your gps either with you or turned on and recordable. It would have to be uploadable to your main gps system tho.
i got a rip curl one with tide times and moon phases, still gotta add or subtract deviations, also you can search for a future tide or moon phase to see. but now my new chartplotter lists all the tide stations and times wherever i am so i dont need it but its still handy to see how far into a tide you are at a glance oh and to see what time it is! 100 metres waterproof too. good quality. i have an almanac for the bite times but still not convinced it really makes any difference.
I have had a couple of casio fishntime watches, I heard Pakula talking about the almanac function on them at the sydney boatshow some years back. I can't conclusively say the fishing times work, but there may be something to it. The handiest feature by far i found was sunrise/sunset for planning starts and returns.
regards wayne
ps tide info and sunrise/sunset is available on the navman tracker series
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