Western Passage, off Kendall Head tidal current predictions

Now

SlackTurning

Next slack

7:21 PMEDT

Next max flood

3.5 kt9:35 PM

Next max ebb

3.5 ktMon 4:59 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward NW (319°); below it the ebb, running out toward SE (142°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: slack 12:29 AM, ebb 3.4 kt 4:22 AM, slack 7:00 AM, flood 3.4 kt 9:21 AM, slack 12:51 PM, ebb 3.5 kt 4:42 PM, slack 7:21 PM, flood 3.5 kt 9:35 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.

• Eastport, Friar RoadsSubordinate current station2.3 mi
• Western Passage, off Frost LedgeSubordinate current station2.8 mi
• Estes Head, EastportHarmonic current station3.0 mi
• Robbinston, St. Croix RiverHarmonic current station11 mi

• Tide times at Eastport 2.0 mi
• Tide times at Garnet Point, Pennamquan River 6.4 mi
• Tide times at Coffins Point 6.8 mi
• Forecast for Eastport, ME
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Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station ACT0101, bin 1: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.