Bath Iron Works, Kennebec River tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 1.9 ktToward N (4°)

Next slack

Tue 3:20 AMEDT

Next max flood

2.1 ktTue 12:20 AM

Next max ebb

2.7 ktTue 6:00 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward N (4°); below it the ebb, running out toward S (178°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 2:33 AM, ebb 2.8 kt 5:14 AM, slack 8:55 AM, flood 2.4 kt 11:50 AM, slack 2:52 PM, ebb 3.1 kt 5:40 PM, slack 9:40 PM.

• Small Craft Advisory Small Craft Advisory issued September 28 at 7:48PM EDT until September 29 at 11:00AM EDT by NWS Gray MEUntil Tue 11:00 AM
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  * WHAT...Northeast winds 10 to 15 kt with gusts up to 25 kt and seas 5 to 8 ft. * WHERE...Coastal Waters from Stonington, ME to Port Clyde, ME out 25 NM, Coastal Waters from Port Clyde, ME to Cape Elizabeth, ME out 25 NM and Coastal Waters from Cape Elizabeth, ME to Merrimack River, MA out 25 NM. * WHEN...Until 11 AM EDT Tuesday. * IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.

  Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller vessels, should avoid navigating in hazardous conditions.

The flood is the tidal current running in from the sea, the ebb the current running back out. Slack water is the short turn between them, when the current is weakest: the time to cross a strong channel, anchor, or dive. Slack in a channel is not the time of high or low tide; it can come hours after.

Speeds are knots along the channel's main axis, and directions are degrees true toward which the water flows, as NOAA prints its tables. A current against the wind stands the waves up steep and close together.

Predictions are astronomical: the moon and the sun, not the weather. Strong wind, river flow after heavy rain and storm surge all change the real current.

• Lincoln Ledge, east ofSubordinate current station0.5 mi
• Doubling Point, south ofSubordinate current station1.7 mi
• Fiddler Ledge, north ofSubordinate current station1.8 mi
• Upper Hell Gate, Sasanoa RiverSubordinate current station2.0 mi
• Bluff Head, west ofSubordinate current station3.4 mi
• Lower Hell Gate, Knubble BaySubordinate current station4.4 mi
• Goose Cove, south of Chops Passage, Kennebec RiverHarmonic current station5.0 mi
• Lowe Point, NE of, Sasanoa RiverSubordinate current station5.7 mi

• Tide times at Bath 1.5 mi
• Tide times at Mill Point, Sasanoa River 2.6 mi
• Tide times at Howard Point, New Meadows River 3.8 mi
• Forecast for Bath, ME
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Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station CAB1420, bin 12: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.