Moosabec Reach, east end tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 1.0 ktToward ESE (110°)

Next slack

9:54 PMEDT

Next max flood

1.2 ktMon 7:12 AM

Next max ebb

1.1 ktMon 12:54 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward ESE (110°); below it the ebb, running out toward WSW (258°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: ebb 1.1 kt 12:11 AM, slack 3:46 AM, flood 1.3 kt 6:31 AM, slack 9:18 AM, ebb 1.2 kt 12:29 PM, slack 4:06 PM, flood 1.3 kt 6:57 PM, slack 9:54 PM.

• Small Craft Advisory Small Craft Advisory issued September 27 at 2:37PM EDT until September 28 at 8:00PM EDT by NWS Caribou MEUntil Mon 8:00 PM
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  * WHAT...Northeast winds 15 to 25 kt with gusts up to 30 kt and seas 4 to 7 ft. * WHERE...Coastal Waters from Eastport, ME to Schoodic Point, ME out 25 NM. * WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT Monday. * 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. This is a subordinate station: NOAA predicts it from a nearby harmonic station by fixed corrections to the times and speeds of its slack waters and maxima, so the curve between them is less exact.

• Moosabec Reach, west endSubordinate current station3.8 mi
• Pond Point, 7.6 miles SSE ofSubordinate current station14 mi

• Tide times at Steele Harbor Island 2.8 mi
• Tide times at Shoppee Point, Englishman Bay 7.1 mi
• Tide times at Stone Island, Machias Bay 11 mi
• Forecast for Jonesport, ME
• Open the live map with tidal currents
• All tidal current stations in Maine

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station ACT0116, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.