south coast - tide question

Thu Aug 18, 2011 11:13 pm

what direction (left or right) does the tide pull along the south coast when the tide is rising and receding eg does it move from left to right on the flood and vice versa on the drop or the opposite?

Re: south coast - tide question

Thu Aug 18, 2011 11:46 pm

Floods west to east ebbs east to west off shore but the nearer you get to harbours and bays it will flood in their direction.

A few miles off Roches Point the tide will flood towards Ballycotton in a westerly direction but the nearer you get to the mouth of the Cork harbour, Roches Point, it will start to go in a northerly direction to fill the harbour.

The same would apply for all the bays and estuaries on the southern coastline

Re: south coast - tide question

Sat Aug 20, 2011 10:31 pm

http://www.tidetech.org/south-coast-uk- ... al-streams

like this ? flood from right to left ebb from left to right along the dublin wicklow and wex coast the south beach at the gannons is a good place to test it :lol: